The religion of most people consists in abstaining from sins they secretly love. Negative godliness is common; it is supposed by most that our religion consists in things we must do rather than pleasures we enjoy. (Spurgeon) What they do not realize is that genuinely abiding in Christ, drawing near and remaining near affords the ultimate delight, the greatest pleasures. Over time, things we had such a taste for in our worldly infancy grow tasteless and plastic. 

Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you your heart’s desires. (Psalm 37:4)

True Christianity is not what most think. Certainly not what Satan has advertised or the world proclaims. It is even not like some of the twisted caricatures we hold in the less matured, earliest days of our walk with Him.

It is delightful. But we must understand and pursue what is most delightful …

It is Him.

God is almighty and majestic, consuming, and the great Judge of heaven and earth. But when you come to know Him—realizing how much He delights in you, how fearfully and wonderfully and precisely He made you, the plans He has for you, that it is all found in Him, and that He is waiting for you to wait for Him and enjoy His presence—your soul is filled with joy.

The great key to the fullest life in Christ is what David and Paul (and everyone who truly knows Him) have said all along: It is to know Him. “Delight yourself in the Lord,” David said. Dwell in His presence long enough in the still watches of the night or the early morning quiet that you come to genuinely know the perfect One, the gracious, holy Father and friend full of lovingkindness. For to know him is to love Him. To know Him more is to never be disappointed.

The one who lives there, more and more, finds their worldly desires fading away. for they increasingly delight in His delights. And they find as they delight in Him that He loves to take them there. They become one with Him and the world begins to see a completed man or woman. God-filled humanity in its truest form.

BUT HOW?

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