Delighting In The Lord
Running through life at 100 miles/hour, juggling between work and family responsibilities, I often get so entangled in the trees that I loose sight of the forest. I think the mistake I most often make is to assume that everything I do independent. That what you do at work is for work. What you do with your family is your personal life. And what you do with God is your spiritual life.
Unfortunately it is just not true. Everything is inter-connected. Not only that. Some things have a heavier weighting than others. There is even a top-down dependency. Your relationship with God defines your relationship with your spouse, which in turn defines your relationships with your children. What happens in your house impacts your productivity at work. When you start to see things in this way, you realize that if you focus only on the trees, you loose sight of your direction. You need to climb above the trees to see beyond the forest.
Therefor our focus must be toward God. If we do not focus on God first, then we impact everything else that God touches. And God touches everything. God is not an equal and independent piece of your life. It is the highest and ultimate piece that affects everything else around it.
Psalm 37:4
Delight yourself in the LORD
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
What we learn here is that if you focus on the LORD, he will make sure you have everything else. But wait, it goes deeper than that.
Psalm 37:23
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.
If you focus on him, even if you do the wrong thing, he will take care of you. By delighting yourself in the LORD, no matter where you go, right or wrong, He will guide you back to the correct path. How amazing is that? I needn’t worry whether I’m doing it right. God will be with me through the best and worst of times. Every time I stumble, He will be there. Helping me to get back up again.
Think about it.
I don’t even need to worry if I’m doing it right. I don’t need to second-guess what God wants me to do. I only need to delight in His presence.
Colin Wong lives with his wife and three kids in the always sunny, never rainy wonderful land of Seattle.
