March 26, how to delight in God's Word, how sweet are your words to my taste,

sweeter than honey to my mouth, Psalm 119, 103, never reduce Christianity to a matter of demands

and resolutions and willpower. It is a matter of what we love, what we delight in, what tastes

good to us. When Jesus came into the world, humanity was split. According to what they loved,

the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light. John 319,

the righteous and the wicked are separated by what they delight in, the revelation of God in Jesus

or the way of the world. So someone may ask, how can I come to delight in the Word of God?

My answer is twofold. One, pray for new taste buds on the tongue of your heart. Two,

meditate on the staggering promises of God to his people.

The same psalmist who said, how sweet are your words to my taste, Psalm 119, 103 said earlier,

open my eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of your law, Psalm 118, 18. He prayed this

because to have spiritual eyes to see glory or to have holy taste buds on the tongue of the heart

is a gift of God. No one naturally hoders for or delights in God and his wisdom.

But when you have prayed, indeed while you pray, meditate on the benefits God promises to his people

and on the joy of having almighty God as your helper now and forever.

Psalm 134 says that the person who meditates on God's Word is like a tree planted by streams of water

that yields its fruit in its season and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he

prospers the wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Who would not delight

to read a book? The reading of which would change one from useless chaff to a mighty cedar of

Lebanon from a Texas dust bowl to a Hawaiian orchard. Nobody deep down wants to be chaff.

Ruthless, waitless, useless, all of us want to draw strikes from some deep river of reality and

become fruitful, useful people. That river of reality is the Word of God and all the great saints

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