“ In view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God- this is your spiritual act of worship. “ Worship Him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the spring of water. We should trust God because we are recipients of God’s goodness. Trusting God when it would be easier to worry. When you don’t have all things figured out.
Trusting God in things we cannot see- when it doesn’t look good. It is easier to worry and blame God than to trust God. Why do we have such a hard time trusting God?īecause it is contrary to our sinful nature. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the highest and 1 being the lowest- how are you doing?
#Dlight by the sea full
That full checkbook or that empty checkbook belong to the Lord. Your body, your skills, your talents, the job you have or praying for- belong to the Lord. “The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it, for he founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the waters.” Trusting is the doorway to understanding- Psalm 24 (3) “Trust in the Lord and do good dwell in the Lord and enjoy safe pasture.” The key to be delighted in the Lord is to be trusting in the Lord. If we think life is fair, and everytime wrong is done to us, we blow a casket- we will be worrying instead of being joyful. If we are always fretting about the unrighteous getting more than what we have- we will be worrying instead of joyful. If we fret about what others have compared to us, we will be worrying instead of joyful. Like Vahine no te vi (Woman of the Mango) (W 449) painted at the same time, it is an example of the relatively few straightforward genre scenes that Gauguin painted immediately after setting up his studio in a native bamboo hut at Mataiea, Papeari. To be delighted is to be joyful- joyful in the Lord and finding joy in pleasing and being in God’s presence. Gauguin painted Fatata te miti (By the Sea) in 1892 during his first trip to Tahiti. What does it mean to delight yourself in the Lord
Let’s go back to one of the first questions I asked you this morning. We cannot say we love God without loving others and modeling Christ. God delights to give to His children, and His children should delight to give back to God.Ī covenant is a binding agreement between God and God’s people. Giving is what God does and giving is what God expects out of us. “The steps of the godly are directed by the Lord, He delights in every detail of our lives.” (23) “ If the Lord delights in a man’s way, he makes his steps firm, though he stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord upholds him with his hand.” When the lord is delighted with us, He will help us and keep us. I want you to see something here that is important. Who will inherit the land and who will enjoy the blessings of God? If you would read all of this long Psalm- you would see that the theme is the contrast between the righteousness of God and the wicked. (2) What does it take for God to give you the desires of your heart?
(1) What does it mean to delight in the Lord? Right in the middle of these verses (4) Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart (repeat) He gets joy when we tangible show Him that we love Him and He delights to give us gifts as His children.ĭo not fret- or do not worry about wicked people succeeding.īe still and wait on God for those things we do not understand. Talents, treasures, and we give him ourselves and desire to have and keep an intimate relationship with Him. I believe He gets joy when we give Him our time. I think God enjoys getting gifts from us. Presents uplift us, fill us with happiness and assure us we are important to others. As a kid you didn’t do anything to earn them, they were given to you to show you how much you are appreciated and loved. You remember as a kid the excitement of receiving presents? This morning we will look at delighting ourselves in the Lord. Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.Last week we looked at being strong in the Lord and standing firm in the Lord. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Both the first stanza and the last three lines are famous. But instead of being a Romantic ode to the sea, it is full of metaphor for the human condition and ends with Arnold's pessimistic view of his time. It begins with a lyrical description of the sea at Dover, looking out across the English Channel toward France. Lyric poet Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" (1867) has been the subject of varying interpretations.
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