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The Joy and Blessing of Obeying God’s Commandments
In this episode, we explore the importance of finding delight in God… (visit YouTube for more)
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In my sector of the church, and perhaps in yours, we emphasise the grace of God a lot, and that’s right and proper. But I worry that sometimes we emphasise it so much that we forget that God really likes it when we obey him. Let’s meditate today on Psalm 112 verse one. Praise the Lord. Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in his commandments.
Now, are you one of those, my brother, my sister, who greatly delights in the commandments of God? What does that mean? We learn from his word what he wants from us, and we also learn from the working the Holy Spirit through us who guides us and directs us.
So are we then seeing what God wants of us and going, that’s great. That’s really what I want. That’s what I want to do. Are we delighting in his commands? What does it take for our heart to be in that state where what we really want is what God wants?
The psalmist says that that person, the one who truly reverences God, who adores him and wants to follow him, that person is blessed.
And blessed in multiple ways. First of all, we’re blessed because God rewards those who obey him. But we’re also blessed because that is a great state of being to be in, to be fearing God with reverence fear, appreciating truly who he is, our holy and loving God, and also to be enjoying serving him.
Once we’ve found out what it is that God wants of us, once we see that he’s given us gifts to do the things that he wants us to do, there is so much satisfaction and rightness in doing those things. That delights us and it delights God. You know, in Chariots of Fire, Eric Liddell is quoted as saying, “When I run, I feel his pleasure.” When we do the things that God made us to do, we feel his pleasure.
He gains pleasure from that, and we gain satisfaction. Blessed is the person who fears God and who delights in his commands.
