He delights in me!

"He brought me out into a spacious place;
He rescued me because He delighted in me."

We are studying II Samuel in BF and yesterday we began studying chapter 22 which is almost identical to Psalm 18. What an awesome verse - to know that the King of Glory and Creator of the universe delights in me. I can't even begin to fathom such a love.
In my quiet time this am, I was just marveling at His love and His forgiveness - amazed that He delights in me!

This am I also read I John. Verses 15-17 really spoke to me: "Do not love the world nor the things of the world...for all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world; and the world is passing away, and also its lusts, but the one who does the will of God abides forever." My prayer to God this am is to please forgive me for loving anything the world has to offer more than I love Him. I never, ever want anyone or anything before Him. I want to delight in Him as much as He delights in me. The last verse in I John says "little children, guard yourselves from idols." My prayer this am is just that - that I never again put anyone or anything before God - because that is idolatry. May He always be my first love. I claim the verse that says to seek HIm first and His righteousness and all these things (the desires of my heart) will be added to it. He doesn't want to deny me the desires of my heart. He is a loving, good Father who wants to give me good gifts. But I don't ever want those good gifts or my desires more than I want Him.

This also reminds me of the verses in Phillipians that God gave me when I was going thru a very difficult time:
"I once thought all these things were so very important, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done. Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the priceless gain of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I may have Christ and become one with him. I no longer count on my own goodness or my ability to obey God's law, but I trust Christ to save me. For God's way of making us right with himself depends on faith. As a result, I can really know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I can learn what it means to suffer with him, sharing in his death, so that, somehow, I can experience the resurrection from the dead!
I don't mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection! But I keep working toward that day when I will finally be all that Christ Jesus saved me for and wants me to be. No, dear brothers and sisters, I am still not all I should be, but I am focusing all my energies on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I strain to reach the end of the race and receive the prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us up to heaven.Dear brothers and sisters, pattern your lives after mine, and learn from those who follow our example. For I have told you often before, and I say it again with tears in my eyes, that there are many whose conduct shows they are really enemies of the cross of Christ. Their future is eternal destruction. Their god is their appetite, they brag about shameful things, and all they think about is this life here on earth. But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for him to return as our Savior. He will take these weak mortal bodies of ours and change them into glorious bodies like his own, using the same mighty power that he will use to conquer everything, everywhere."

I love how God speaks to us thru His Word - how He ties it all together - and how He points us to exactly what we need to hear from Him thru it.

Today I hear HIm telling me to seek Him above all else and that NOTHING the world has to offer compares to that!
May I always delight in Him.