"Feed me"

Delight yourself in the Lord,

and he will give you the desires of your heart (Ps. 37).

Now to Him Who is able to immeasurably give us more than we can ask or imagine,

glory be to Him generation to generation (Eph. 3:20).

What are the "desires of the heart" of one who "delights himself in the Lord"?  Wouldn't it be that others who we love could also find delight and beauty in the Lord?  If someone says to us, "look at that beautiful sunset," it is only because they want to share with us their own delight and joy, their appreciation of the beauty they see.    But if someone says, "look at the beauty of the Lord," we become afraid and suspicious that we will be asked to convert, to become a Christian, to change our way of living.

Jesus said to the woman at the well, "if you knew the gift of God, and who it is who speaks with you, you would ask, and He would give you, a fountain of living water springing up to eternal life."  Now I wonder what is threatening about that.  Jesus did not ask the woman for a change of life, but only for a cup of water.  Why are we afraid of God, who is able to give us "immeasurably" more than we can ask or imagine, the God who wants to give us "the desires of our hearts"?

I think maybe the problem is that we have never read for ourselves the Word of God, so we fail to grasp the desires of God.  Men at different times have interpreted the Word to God to "prove" their positions, but that does not mean that we then know or understand the Word.  It takes the Spirit which "blows where it will" to illuminate the truth that God wants to put in our hearts, and only the Spirit of God knows what that truth is, the truth that each one of us needs to hear at any given moment. 

We need to listen to one another, for God ministers to us through the body of the church, but listening to one another never excuses us from listening also and first to God Himself.  "The Comforter will lead you into all truth," said Jesus.  "I have much more to teach you, but you cannot now [absorb it], but when He comes, He will take what is mine and give it to you" (Jn. 14:....)

When we go to a fine restaurant and the chef says, "Let me feed you," we put ourselves in his hands, knowing that he will bring out only the best he has to place before us.  Of course, we can refuse his offer, saying, "No, someone told me that I need to eat the fish," and then we are in control of the meal, but we have missed the delight of the chef and the best he can give us.

I think maybe we need to pick up the Scriptures and say, "Feed me, Lord, for only You have the words of eternal life."