Delight

“For I delight in your commands because I love them.” (Psalm 119:47)

What do you delight it? In Psalm 37 the Psalmist said, “delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.” Paul said, “For me to live is Christ but to die is gain.” If we take delight in anything but the Lord and His commands then to die is not gain but loss. If we delight in our family, our position, our wealth, etc. then death separates us from them and our delight is gone. But if we delight in the Lord and His Word then death does not separate us from Him but brings us closer.

If you see God’s commands as rules to obey then we will not delight in them but if we see them as the promises of a loving God then we can rejoice in the goodness and greatness of our God. Many times our delight is in how we see things. One person may delight in something that another finds to be anything but delightful. Let us see God’s commands as His loving word to us rather than rules to obey for then we can say with the Psalmist that we delight in God’s commands because we love them.