Posted on 03/11/2021 11:31:53 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight” (Proverbs 12:22).
“The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight” (Proverbs 15:8).
It’s almost sad to see how much a grandmother delights to see her grandbabies who are separated by a great distance, making it hard for them to see her on a daily basis. She misses them so much that it hurts when they are not there. This is not to make God some kind of grandmother, but He is delighted to have his sons and daughters pray and to be upright, and to get on their knees uprightly pray. It is his delight. He is not just glad about it, He is delighted in it.
It's truly sad because people, when it comes to pleasing God, think they can please God without being saved and they can’t. But then, after people are saved they often think that they are pleasing God by just relying on grace and grace alone and not worrying about anything else; and that’s just not true either.
“He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry. He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man [the idea that the man’s legs are his strength; no matter how strong the man’s back is, if he can't bend over and pick something up off the ground, he's not strong and then it goes on to say]. The LORD taketh pleasure [that equals that delight] in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy” (Psalms 147:9-11).
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