What’s Love Got to Do with It?

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**Delight Yourself In the Lord (Psalm 37:4)**
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My mentor mentioned this to me this week.

*Delight yourself in the Lord.*
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As I have been dwelling on this concept, I keep coming back to the first commandment...

*Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your soul, with all your strength. (Mark 12:29-31)*
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Love, Delight, Love, Delight, Love, Delight.

Can it be any more simple?

So many times I find myself coming to God, wanting to have things figured out, wondering why certain things happen, how I should respond, etc. And here are the same words again....

Love me, delight in me. Thats all.

I am challenged at how focused I become on doing everything else for God....serving....doing this, doing that, realizing I don't put as much and attention into **loving **God as I do serving Him.

I have to think of the different ways I try to make my children feel loved, showing them they are worthy of my time and attention. Though I fail often at this, it is one thing I strive for in parenting - spending time uniquely with each of my children. Letting them *know *they are loved.

I'm challenged to spend as much time with my Lord, learning to love Him as I do my children.

Delighting in Him above all else. Even above serving. I wonder how my relationship with the Creator would change if I spend as much time in His word and silent before Him as I do serving him. I bet I would learn more about what it means to delight in Him.

As a new year approaches, I'm challenged to do this - to spend time getting to know Him more, learning what it means to love him, to delight in Him. I can't say I have it perfected now, because it will involves action, not just sentiment. Similar to having congruent actions to follow the "I love yous" I say to my children. Otherwise, it won't be authentic.
The same is true for my Lord.

*Father, please show me what it means to Love you, to delight in you.*
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