PSALM 37:4 DELIGHTED DESIRES (DO DA VERBS)

Delighted Greetings to you

"DELIGHT yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the DESIRES of your heart."
(Psalm 37:4)

I really like this Psalm. Out of the 150 Psalms...this is in the top 10 for me. I only put Psalm 37:4 as the focus of this post...but really it is the collective wisdom from this Psalm that does it for me.

The subtitle is "DO DA VERBS". What can we DO when it looks like the bad guys are getting away with murder while we get hammered if we do something right? (Psalm 37:1-2)

What can we DO until the evildoers and wrongdoers of iniquity are cut down like the grass and wither like the green herb? (Psalm 37:1-2) Are we helpless and can't DO anything?

As I read Psalm 37...I began to see the VERBS...that we can DO...as we walk by FAITH and not by SIGHT. What we see is evildoers and wrongdoers of iniquity. What we do is act based on faith.

NOTE: Take some time and circle the verbs...and then DO DA VERBS.

Here are a list of some of the VERBS...and the CAUSE and EFFECT of DOING DA VERBS:

1. Fret not
2. Do not be envious
3. Trust in the Lord
4. Do good
5. Dwell in the land
6. Feed on His faithfulness (cultivate faithfulness)
7. Delight yourself in the Lord. CAUSE AND EFFECT: He will give you the desires of your
heart.

NOTE: Delight: awnag (aw-nag)=to be soft and pliable, effeminate and luxurious; delicate.
True delighting yourself IN THE LORD...is being pliable and soft to Him.

The cause and effect of you delighting yourself in the Lord...is that he will GIVE (plant within you those desires) and BRING TO PASS those planted desires.

NOTE TO THE NOTE: Instead of become hard and demanding your way to have the evildoers and wrongdoers busted...you yield your will to the Lord's will...and the Lord's timing. This will nip your frustration in the bud as you realize that He is in control and NOT the evil and wrong doers.

8. Commit your way to the Lord
9. Trust also in Him CAUSE AND EFFECT: He will bring it to pass. He shall bring forth
your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.
10. Rest in the Lord
11. Wait patiently for Him
12. Do not fret
13. Cease from anger
14. Forsake wrath
15. Do not fret (spoken multiple times) CAUSE AND EFFECT : It only causes harm.
16. Depart from evil
17. Do good
18. Speak Wisdom
19. Talk of Justice
20. Wait on the Lord
21. Keep the Lord's way

So here you have things that you can do...DO DA VERBS. The Psalm ends with the bottom line.

"But the salvation of the righteous is FROM THE LORD; He is their STRENGTH in time of trouble. And the Lord shall HELP them and DELIVER them; He shall DELIVER them from the wicked, and SAVE them...BECAUSE...THEY TRUST IN HIM." (Psalm 37:39-40)

Love and Deeeeeeelighted Kisses
Rodney "Cultivating Faithfulness In His Faithfulness" Boyd