A Look at Psalm 119:35
A Delightful Path
Psalm 119:35 “Direct me in the path of your commands, for there I find delight.”
There is a path of delight for those who follow God’s commandments. In
Proverbs 22:6 we read,
“Train a child in the way they should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.”
"Training” means more than just taking our children to church and teaching them about God. These are both wonderful things - but training a child in the way he or she should go really has little to do with church attendance. The more accurate truth is that when we train someone, we teach them by doing, in their presence, what we want them to do. In other words, we live the life we want them to live.
David wanted to be directed in God’s path. God has a path, or that which comes naturally, for each of us.
Proverbs goes on to tell us in chapter
30:18-19,
“There are three things that are too amazing for me, four that I do not understand: the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a maiden.”
There is a naturalness in each of these cases that is hard to explain. It is an expression of inborn desire or drive that God has put in each of us. We experience delight when we are following in the path God has designed for us. If parents can find the intrinsic path God has for their children and train them in it, their child will have a life full of delight.
“There is a way that seems right to a man; but in the end it leads to death” Proverbs 14:12. Man’s way is death God’s way is life. When we line our lives up with the commands of God, we discover the natural path God has for us. Therein we find the fullness of delight.
I encourage you to take some time to meditate on this verse today. As you do, ask God to show you the natural path He has designed for you.
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