Delight vs Duty

Somehow in my early years as a Christian, I lost my sense of delight in Jesus. I was still happy to have been saved from Hell, but my delight got lost in a sense of duty.

God has used my delight in Scooter to show me how He loves me. And His love is delightful.

One of the things I love to do through Beautiful Brokenness is to change the way folks see His delight. I don’t think God is delighted as much by the big things we want to accomplish for Him as the dance of delight He wants to share with us.

The word delight is a big word and can be used in many ways.

First as a noun in two ways: delight: 1) a high degree of pleasure or enjoyment; joy; rapture: Example ~ She takes great delight in her horse.

2) something that gives great pleasure: The dance was a delight to see.

Then as a verb (used with object)

3. to give great pleasure, satisfaction, or enjoyment to; please highly: The dance delighted everyone.

verb (used without object)

4. to have great pleasure; take pleasure (followed by in or an infinitive): She delights in spending long days with her horse.

Do you know how much your heavenly Dad is delighted with you?

Don’t you just love the many ways God delights in us? Don’t you just love the many ways we can delight in Him.

In. He delights in me. I delight in Him. In. That’s how we delight. By knowing and believing and experiencing our IN.

IN Him.

That’s the key to delight vs duty.