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NASB | Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself in the LORD; And He will give you the desires of your heart. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself in the LORD, And He will give you the desires and petitions of your heart. |
Bible Question: Is the prayer of Jesus in the garden, "not My will but Yours be done" (Luke 22:42) an example of "delighting in the LORD?" Can we understand suffering in this context? I'm wondering if seeking His kingdom and His righteousness first, also goes along here? Any insight would be appreciated. |
Bible Answer: Dear Mommapbs, Do we dare say that, any human born to sin, that very sin, and His love for those imprisoned by it that, impassioned our Lord to suffer for all the horror of sin, for all the world and for all time, past present and future, in our stead, could ever be understood or even imagined? Please forgive, but to say that we could in our tinny human imagination, compare, or even begin to understand is, patently ludicrous. I believe C. H. Spurgeon said it well -as well as any mere human can- in his passionate depiction of Christ's suffering on the cross. That cross that has become such sweetness to those who know that they have been saved by and through what He did there to redeem us from the unimaginable horrors of eternal hell. " Having all his life long carried their sicknesses and sorrows, he bore the burden of sin to the place of its annihilation, and by his death he made an end of it. Apart from the atonement, the chosen of God, like other men, lay under sin; the black cloud was over all the race, but Jesus took the dense mass of all the transgressions of his people, past, present, and to come, and obliterated the whole, even as a cloud is blotted out from the face of heaven. Jesus took the whole incalculably ponderous load, all charged with tempest as it was, and bore it all upon those shoulders, which must have been crushed to the earth had they not been divine: on the tree he bore that sin and the wrath which was due to it, feeling all its crowded tempests in his own soul, until in that moment when he had borne all, and ended all, he sent up the victorious shout of "It is finished." C. H. Spurgeon John |