04/16/20 TRUE BELIEVING IS DELIGHTING IN HIS WILL

04/16/20 TRUE BELIEVING IS DELIGHTING IN HIS WILL
 
I wrote this eight years ago, mostly quoting God who had it written thousands of years ago. No sinning religion here.

(April 14, 2012)
We can want what God wants us to want, but it takes the miracle of salvation, including; regeneration, justification, purification, partaking of the Holy Spirit, putting on the new man and putting off the old man. All these things happen, and more, when we believe on Christ. If these things are not happening, then we are not believing on Christ.

(April 16, 2012)
In the Bible we read that God Delights in Us (His family of faith) and We Delight in Him. Here are some of those verses. Those who are in the Spirit, and not in the flesh can live in the reality of these verses.

GOD DELIGHTS IN US...
Deuteronomy 10:12-21
(12) And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
(13) To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
(14) Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.

* (15) Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

(16) Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
(17) For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
(18) He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
(19) Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
(20) Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
(21) He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.

1 Samuel 15:22
(22) And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

Psalms 18:19
(19) He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

Psalms 147:10-11
* (10) He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.
(11) The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.

Proverbs 3:12
(12) For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Proverbs 11:20
(20) They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.

Proverbs 12:22
(22) Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.

Proverbs 15:8-9
* (8) The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
(9) The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.

Jeremiah 9:24
(24) But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.

WE DELIGHT IN GOD...
Psalms 1:2
(2) But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

Psalms 37:4
(4) Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

Psalms 37:23
(23) The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.

Psalms 112:1
(1) Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.

Psalms 119:16
(16) I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.

Psalms 119:24
(24) Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.

Psalms 119:35
(35) Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.

Psalms 119:47
(47) And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.

Psalms 119:92
(92) Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

Isaiah 58:2
(2) Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.

Romans 7:22
(22) For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

Two things to remember.
1- Though all but one of these verses are Old Testament, the principles transcend the Testaments. Notice that many of these passages are reiterated in the New Testament.

Also, the focus is on spiritual truths, not Mosaic law. Obedience to God and keeping the moral law is not strictly an Old Testament concept. In fact, without the message and provisions of salvation found in the New Testament, there would not be anyone who could have obeyed God.

If the people of the Old Testament, who were anticipating the coming Messiah (Servant/King), could live in any form of spiritual victory, certainly those who live in the full disclosure of New Testament resurrection power can be more than conquerors and live triumphantly in Christ.

2- The fact that God delights in us (people of faith) and we delight in Him is not an idealistic hope, but an actual, livable reality that has been openly declared by God Himself.

Remember this too.
When we think that God is fortunate to have us, our love or our service, we have lost sight of the fact that He delights only in those who are humble and we have lost our awareness that the excellency is of God, and not of ourselves.
2 Corinthians 4:7
(7) But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.