“Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart” (Psalm 37:4, Amplified).

I’ve always heard this passage applied along the lines of “If you find your happiness in God, He’ll give you what you really want.”

Tonight at Kairos, the main speaker put a bit of a twist on that familiar and popular idea.

He said that to delight in the LORD is more than to be happy or to find satisfaction in God. It’s more along the lines of being consumed in a pursuit of God so that everything else becomes secondary and God becomes your one and only desire.

Basically, if you delight in God, you will find that all your truest desires at their deepest level find their ultimate fulfillment in Him. Everything else fades away.

I confess that lately I seem to delight in lots of things more than in God. Most of these leave my desires unmet. I wonder if I really and truly set my delight in God, maybe all those other desires would lose their luster and not seem so appealing. Or maybe I’d find that the root of all these desires is a deep need that only God can meet.

I think C. S. Lewis sums it up beautifully: “If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”

Or better yet I was made for God and nothing apart from God can satisfy my desires but God.