Sometimes when I read the psalms, I feel like I really cannot relate to David. The way he talks about his delight in the Lord, it challenges me.
Reading something like Psalm 36:5-9 (NIV)
Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the skies.
Your righteousness is like the highest mountains,
your justice like the great deep.
You, Lord, preserve both people and animals.
How priceless is your unfailing love, O God!
People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
They feast on the abundance of your house;
you give them drink from your river of delights.
For with you is the fountain of life;
in your light we see light.
I feel there are too many days when I acknowledge the Lord, but I don't get caught up in Him the way David did. I can read these words, I agree with them in my head, but I question if I delight myself in the Lord as David did.
Jonathan Edwards said, "A true love of God must begin with a delight in his holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this."
So perhaps there lies a key in all of this? To ask the Lord for a revelation of his holiness, to see him more clearly today, then yesterday.
