{"id":1443,"date":"2019-02-17T08:26:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T16:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2019-02-17T08:26:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T16:26:19","slug":"devotion-psalm-374-having-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1443","title":{"rendered":"Devotion Psalm 37:4 Having It All"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Psalm 37:4<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Take delight in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Psalm 37:4<\/b>\u00a0has a different meaning to some than to others.\u00a0 It is a matter of understanding the most basic things.\u00a0\u00a0 It is building upon the firm foundation rather than on the \u201cnew thing,\u201d especially when the \u201cnew thing\u201d is really just a very old thing. \u00a0This verse has a sister verse in\u00a0Matthew 6:33<\/b>\u00a0\u201cBut seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these thing will be given to you as well<\/i>.\u201d \u00a0Jeremiah 29:13<\/b>\u00a0\u201cYou will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.<\/i>\u201d\u00a0 What does it mean to \u201ctake delight in the LORD<\/i>?\u201d\u00a0 Also what does it mean that \u201cHe will give you the desires of your heart<\/i>?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 The above verse in Matthew says to seek first His kingdom.\u00a0 Jeremiah reveals what it is to seek first His kingdom\u00a0 He tells us it is to seek God personally with all of our heart.\u00a0 It is to seek God like a man dying of thirst seeks water.\u00a0 It is to seek God like a man dying of hunger.\u00a0 It is to say to oneself that \u201cGod will be sought and found or I will perish because I want no other thing.\u201d\u00a0 It is to be singularly focused with a life-need to know God.\u00a0 When we realize that to not have God makes having anything else we have not important.\u00a0 Jesus posed the question \u201cWhat good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul<\/i>?\u201d (Mark 8:36<\/b>)\u00a0 The meaning of life is knowing God.\u00a0 There is only one way to know God and that is through Jesus (John 14:6<\/b>).\u00a0 All people are born with an innate craving that pulses within.\u00a0 The child, or the adult, cries out for what they know not.\u00a0 It is only when one turns to one\u2019s Creator, Savior, and Lord and says \u201cI must know You and nothing else matters\u201d that things begin to turn around.\u00a0 It is when one longs to dwell every moment of one\u2019s life with God that we begin to know it is only He who can sustain us through every moment of our lives, both here and beyond into eternity.\u00a0 Family, we all will live forever and we are all born with an anxiety, a seemingly unstoppable itch, to understand forever.\u00a0 We want to know how to walk from this life to our next life into the place of our destiny and peace.\u00a0 Those who seek with a solitary passion to know the Truth will find it as Jeremiah and Matthew tells us.\u00a0 We must realize our most basic need and seek it.\u00a0 Our most basic need is God.\u00a0 It is our most basic and the only truly fulfilling need we have.\u00a0 When we have God we have all.\u00a0 When we don\u2019t have God we have nothing.<\/div>\n

First we honestly and passionately we seek God.\u00a0 He, and everything about Him, is the fulfilment of us and everything about us.\u00a0 Once we find Him we seek no other and He floods us with His love and the realization of His promises.\u00a0 His love and promises are everything we need.\u00a0 We grow to know more of Him and the distractions of what this world has to offer become more disdainful to us.\u00a0 If we have the necessities of life, it is enough, because we have the Author of Life.\u00a0 He loves us.\u00a0 He has prepared all things to show us His love.\u00a0 More and more we learn that our only need is Him and that He is aware of all that we truly need and provides it.\u00a0 When we know God we trust Him, when we trust Him worry becomes a fading part of our lives as we are certain that He knows our needs much more than we know our needs (Matthew 6:25-34<\/b>).\u00a0 Only He is absolutely able to provide all our needs.<\/p>\n

We seek God.\u00a0 We find God.\u00a0 He becomes the delight of our heart.\u00a0 Therefore in seeking and knowing God we have all that we want because He is the only One that we can fully trust to always love us and never let us down.\u00a0 For all I pray that you have found the one Truth that ultimately is the only Truth that matters.\u00a0 That Truth is Jesus, through whom God has expressed Himself, and therefore His love, to all of us.\u00a0 Family and Friends, perhaps I may someday have only Him.\u00a0 In that, I will have all.\u00a0 May all of you have all, may you have Him.\u00a0\u00a0 Love and praises and honor to our God and Savior!<\/p>\n

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Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/i><\/p>\n

Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Psalm 37:4\u00a0–\u00a0Take delight in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4\u00a0has a different meaning to some than to others.\u00a0 It is a matter of understanding the most basic things.\u00a0\u00a0 It is building upon the firm foundation rather than on the \u201cnew thing,\u201d especially when the \u201cnew thing\u201d is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[99,100,93,101,94,17],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-jeremiah","tag-john","tag-mark","tag-matthew","tag-micah","tag-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}