Joy and Delight

Jer. 15:16

Your words were found and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts.

What a beautiful attitude toward God's words! Oh that I might be an eater of God's words, that I might devour them and treasure them! What in this world do I joy and take delight in? Family, friends, possessions, esteem? All of those things pale in light of God's word, or should I say should pale. How easily distracted are our hearts! How easily turned to value what is temporal and earthly! We often forget whose name we have taken or has taken us. We are bought with the price of the life of the Son of God and are no longer our own. We are His, and because of this one fact we must take delight in the things that are eternal, in the things that are filled with Jesus.  We must eat the words because they are He. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The Word, the living Word, the Logos is Jesus Christ. He is our delight and our joy!

Father,

Give me an unquenchable appetite for the Word, for Jesus. Give me that delight and joy that only comes from You. Help me to always remember who has called me and who is my owner. Help me to remember I am called by Your name!

In the name of the Word,

Amen