Pushing Through

There's a group of us at Central Church here in Fort Wayne wou are working through this whole idea of "sole delight." We're using the book, "Don't Waste Your Life," and we're discovering that the only way to not waste our life is to take delight in God and God Alone, to develop a passion within for more and more of God, and to use every opportunity to enable others to find their delight in Him as well.

But there's this question that keeps creeping in: How do I find my delight, my joy,my pleasure, my happiness -- whatever your word is -- in God? It's one thing to know in my head that He is ultimately desireable, but delight itself is such a viseral -- an emotional -- response that seems rather difficult to control.

That's where "pushing through" comes in. When we have an experience that delights us, there is a very strong tendency to stop with that delight and enjoy it for what it does to me. Whether it's a kiss from the one we love, a taste of our favorite food, or a view of a breathtaking sunset, we take it in for the pleasure it brings us, we savor it, as we go no further. It we are ever to learn to delight in God, we need to push through that stopping point to the One who made it possible, to the Grace that grants all good things, and to the Cross that delivered that grace to us. In other words, we need to push through everyday pleasures to turn them into moments of worship and sweetness with God.

More later ...