Are you delighting yourself in the Lord?

Ladies, I'm truly feasting on this first chapter of our book, "Delight in the Lord" - our key verse is: "Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart". Everytime I read this verse, I want to turn it around: Delight yourself in the Lord and He becomes the desire of your heart. As the author says, it's not so much a means to end: if I delight in Him, I'll get what I want. No, its a relationship..as I delight in Him, He becomes all I want. Sometimes a verse becomes so familiar to us, we recite it by memory without it even sinking into our hearts. It's easy to recite a verse but another thing entirely to experience it, to live it. So, how do we have such a relationship, that we delight in Him as He delights in us. One way is thru His Word.

As you get into His Word...it draws you more and more and you can't get enough. I remember once reading that feeding on the Word for our spiritual nourishment has the opposite effect as feeding on food for our physical nourishment. When you eat food, eventually you'll be filled and can't eat anymore. But when you feed on the Word, you just keep hungering for more. The longer you go without physical food, you'll get hungrier. The longer you go without your spiritual food (the Word) - the hunger for it disappears. Hmmm.

Think about the last time you delighted in someone (or Someone). You long to be in their presence and when you're apart, your thoughts are constantly on that person (or Person). You're wondering what they think about your every thought or action...that's what God wants for us! So my question for you ladies to wrap up this first chapter: what does it mean to you to delight yourself in the Lord? How are you living out that experience?