Getting Our Fill From God

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.” Matthew 5:6  

Where do we get “our fill?” Like Jesus, our food should be “to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work” (John 4:34). But how we do devote ourselves to obedience without getting frustrated? The answer, I am convinced, is delighting in God. When we take delight God and in pleasing God, the joylessness and drudgery of obedience is gone and we “get our fill” from God. Take time to meditate on the following passages from the Psalms that speak of delighting in God.

“But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.” Psalm 1:2

“Then my soul will rejoice in the Lord and delight in his salvation.” Psalm 35:9

“Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.” Psalm 37:4

“Then will I go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight. I will praise you with the harp, O God, my God.” Psalm 43:4

“Great are the works of the Lord; they are pondered by all who delight in them.”
Psalm 111:2

“Praise the Lord. Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who finds great delight in his commands.” Psalm 112:1

“I delight in your decrees; I will not neglect your word.” Psalm 119:16

“Your statutes are my delight; they are my counselors.” Psalm 119:24

“Direct me in the path of your commands, for there I find delight.” Psalm 119:35

“. . .for I delight in your commands because I love them.” Psalm 119:47

“Let your compassion come to me that I may live, for your law is my delight.”
Psalm 119:77

“If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.”
Psalm 119:92

“Trouble and distress have come upon me, but your commands are my delight.”
Psalm 119:143

“I long for your salvation, O Lord, and your law is my delight.” Psalm 119:174

May God help us all learn to delight in Him and “get our fill” through a hunger and thirst for righteousness.

— Bob Clark

2/4/2003