How do you "delight" in the Lord?

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Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. But how do you take delight in the Lord? The next verse does say, "Commit your way to the Lord, trust in him." But how do you delight in the Lord? Think about the last time you were so cold, freezing, shivering, and saw a warm fire. As you got closer to it, you could just feel the heat, and you just wanted to stay there until you got warm again. What if delighting in the Lord is kind of like that? Jesus said, "Come to me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I'm gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest in your soul." Think about somebody that you like. How did you come to like them? You spend time with them, right? Would you say that you delight in them? We get there by spending time with that person. Jesus is saying here, "Come to me, all who are weary." And he will give us rest. In the beginning, we don't want to spend time with God, because how do you do that? If we're upset, we'll try to do anything to get our mind off of it, or to go fix that thing. Here's what's been helpful for me. Number one, the easiest place to start. Instead of sharing it with other people, bring it to God. Wherever you are, just close your eyes, and say in your head or aloud, "God, I'm upset, and I don't know how to handle this. I'm hurting. I'm angry. I'm sad. I need help." Here's someone doing that in the Bible. "Save me, oh God, for the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in the miry depths, where there's no foothold. I have come into the deep waters, and the floods engulf me. I'm worn out calling for help. My throat is parched. My eyes fail looking for my God." You know who's talking there? That's David from David and Goliath, the one that took out the giant, bringing his raw feelings to the Lord. It's okay to bring how we feel directly to God. We do that with the people we like. We spend time with them. We share how we're feeling with them. That's the first way I found to take delight in the Lord. The second way, we just did it. When you're spending time with someone, it's not all one-way, us sharing things. They also have words of encouragement for us, too. And that's what this is, God's words. Watching this video is telling you a story of how I handle it, but the Bible is filled with thousands more stories. I once heard someone say the Bible is God's love letter, written to you. The third way is to take action. You're going to start to feel things in the Holy Spirit while you're reading this Bible. If God is telling us to do it in scripture, there's a reason for it. My pastor once said, "Sometimes you need a faith it until you feel it, not fake it, to believe in faith that the word you got from somebody that cares about you will help you if you act on it, even if you don't feel it yet. Do that until you do." And the last one, which ties directly to faith it till you feel it, listening to Christian worship music. I love specifically Elevation Worship and Elevation Rhythm for lyrics like this. Look at what the Lord has done. I'm never going back to the way I was. Did you catch that? It's encouraging us to look at what the Lord has done, even if we don't see it, even if we don't feel it. It's a reminder for us to do that and then also believe in faith, I'm never going back to the way I was, because we're always supposed to be growing, especially as we see the things that God does. There is an enemy that wants you to stay stuck forever, to distract you from God, but you can believe in faith, even if you don't feel free yet. One day you'll be able to say, "Thank God, I'm free." and feel that, too. That's how I take delight in the Lord. How will you do it? Let me know so I can be praying for you. God bless.