To my precious readers… For today’s post  I have linked with others at The Gypsy Mama , who prompts writers with a word. Today it is DELIGHT. Then we have just 5 minutes to let the words flow from our hearts, unedited and unhindered. So here is my 5 minutes worth…

He is not so much looking at what I do. “I desire obedience more than sacrifice,” He says. He is looking at the motivation of my heart. What is urging me, compelling me to move forward and do the things I do? What is the root of my desire? Is my desire rooted in my selfish nature? In my sinful self? Or are my desires His? He promises, as I DELIGHT in Him, He will give me the desires of my heart.

 

I delight in You. Fill my heart with only Your desires for my life, Lord.

 

The imperative to guard my heart with diligence, sobers me. I re-evaluate my actions, my decisions. There is so much that does not satisfy me in this life. There is so much that counterfeits as fulfillment. Then, in this low place I realize I have been allowing things to occupy places in my heart that are reserved for God to inhabit. I behold what I hold in my hand that has consumed so much of my precious time and resources, crumble and slip through my fingers and I lament over the waste of it. It brings me to my knees in repentance, crying out for the substance only a life surrendered to God and His will can provide.

 

Artwork Created by: Eric Vincent Suarez  {my brother}

In this posture I petition, take it all Lord,

everything I am, everything I have.

Awaken me to Your desire for me.

Use my life to bring You alone glory.

Let me not build with hay and stubble,

so that which I build may withstand testing by FIRE.

Help me to invest myself in undertaking work

that is worthy of the calling to which I have been called.  

Let my desires be purified by Your will for me…  DELIGHT in me Lord.