Daily Delighting in God, HIs Presence and His Word

UV 452/10,000 Isaiah 58 v 2 Daily Delighting in God Isa 58:2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. For the believer, “seeing is not believing”, it is seeking that is believing. We seek the unseen God and we delight in knowing His ways so that we too can walk in them that we may please Him. The ways of God are knowable, verifiable and amenable to observation, study and experience. We know of His ways by reading and reflecting on the Word of God. In so doing, we become a nation that “does” righteousness. For the Word contains the ordinances or laws of justice that our God has ordained from before the beginning of time. We delight in approaching God daily. How can we approach the holy God unless we ourselves are holy? It is Christ Jesus who clothes us with the clothes of salvation and righteousness that we can approach His holy throne. The image drawn is that of a subject who needs to approach the king sitting on his throne, arrayed in splendour, himself dressed in appropriate fine clothes for the occasion. The king seeing the humble and expectant look on his face will issue an ordinance or order from the throne to render what justice the subject is seeking. Having received the ordinance, we should not neglect it or ignore it but execute it daily in our lives. A court can order a particular act to render justice but unless it is executed, it will be of no avail. There are many things that need to be set right in our lives. We seek justice in these areas. There are many areas in which we need to correct ourselves. We seek the ordinances of God for both these aspects of our daily lives so that day by day and degree by degree we are transformed into the very image of God. Finally, on the day of the Lord we will be qualified by grace to sit beside the throne of God. Prateep V Philip