Contented Enough to be Delighted?

Wow I didn’t realize I never finished this and much less posted it. I have been in overdrive trying to get ready for school starting back. I work at a university and classes begin here next week, faculty came back yesterday so my personal “stuff” went on hold.

Over the past few months I have been really out of sorts. I my mother told me it was the Gypsy blood running through my veins (I am Irish there are no Gypsy blood on either side of the family.) I told her it is really not that I just want a place of my own. My husband lost his job several years ago and that caused the old domino effect and we lost just lost everything including our house. Since then I have felt out of place, before I could knock out a wall or rip up carpet now I can’t it is no my house. I have said all that because I wanted to share something I was reading; part of my bible reading the other day was Psalm 37 well I got hung up on verse 4...Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

According to Merriam Webster delight means...

1. a high degree of gratification : joy; also : extreme satisfaction
2. something that gives great pleasure 3. archaic : the power of affording pleasure

What I should say is I got hung up on the word "delight"

I really dislike when I get hung up on a word or verse it takes weeks to mull it over and work it out.

I guess the big question really is do we really want what we think are the desires of our heart.

One of the next bible readings was I Timothy 6:1-6 where it talks about false teachers and contentment. It made me realize that in order to be delighted in the Lord we had to be content with ourselves. Because if we are not content with where we are we will not focus on the word.

According to the dictionary content means:

1. satisfied with what one is or has; not wanting more or anything else.
2. British . agreeing; assenting.
3. Archaic . willing.

So according to these definitions in order to be I have to be satisfied in order to have gratification.

Hummm thoughts to ponder.