"Walking In Delight" (Proverbs 8:27-32)
What fills you with delight? Seriously, think about it. Day to day what is something that fills you with delight, makes you smile and puts pep in your step? Stop and take a moment to give it thought.
Wisdom is the narrator of Proverbs 8:27-32 and answers the above question. Wisdom speaks about being present with the LORD, by his side, when he created the the world (as we read in Genesis). But it was verse 30 that stopped me and made me think about what I truly delight in.
"Then I (wisdom) was the craftsman at his (The LORD's) side. I was filled with delight day after day, rejoicing always in his presence..." Pr. 8:30
What was wisdom's delight? Day after day what filled Wisdom with delight and rejoicing? The answer: being with the LORD, in his presence. Wisdom wasn't just hanging around the sidelines and watching what the LORD was doing. NO!!! Wisdom was using it's giftedness to work alongside the LORD, in his creation. It brought Wisdom delight and rejoicing to work with the LORD for the LORD's glory and good day after day.
God has gifted each of us in different ways and he calls us, invites us, gives us opportunity to join him in the work he is doing by using our different skills and gifts along side of him. Day after day we can wake up and delight and rejoice in the opportunities that await us. I know that there are challenges in each day, difficult people, struggling situations, uncertain outcomes but we don't walk alone. Each day, like wisdom, we can walk by the Father's side and let him guide us and use us to make a difference, to have an impact in the world we are a part of. We don't need to be perfect because we walk along side the perfect one. We just need to be willing and to walk with him.
This world can be full of so much evil and darkness that if we are not careful it can and will steal our joy, our delight, our rejoicing. It will shift our focus. To walk with the LORD, to seek him each day and to ask him to use us in the lives around us can keep us focused on him and keep our hearts in a constant state of true delight. That is how I want to live each day I am given. How amazing it would be to read Proverbs 8:30 with my names in there:
"Then I, Ruth, was the craftsman at his side. I was filled with delight day after day, rejoicing always in his presence..."
I don't delight in the challenges, the difficult people or circumstances, the struggle or uncertainty. I delight in my God who is bigger than it all and who is working all things out for good and his Glory and invites me to his side to take part in what he is doing. There truly is nothing more delightful than that.
How does God want to use you? Ask him every day and then rejoice that you can walk with him in the world and delight in how he has invited you to join him in his work so that you can be the craftsman at his side. Don't wait, let the opportunity to delight in him day after day begin today!
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