I have just caught my breath from a very full schedule and I'm starting to wind down to experience my first ever Sabbatical. I still have a few more things to finish prior to the official start of my summer of rest. As I slowly transition, I was challenged by this question:
what do I delight in? Do I delight in rest? Do I delight in freedom? In sleep? In watching endless tv? David reminded me this morning to "Delight myself in the Lord..." (Psalm 37:4) I confess I don't do this very well. OK, it is quite the challenge for me. But this summer, my desire is to delight myself in the Lord. When I delight myself in anything else, my soul tends to shrivel. Read what Piper says about summer:
“Don’t
let summer make your soul shrivel. God
made the summer as a foretaste of heaven, not a substitute.
If the mailman brings you a love letter from your fiancé, don’t fall in
love with the mailman. That’s what
summer is: God’s messenger with a sun-soaked, tree-green, flower-blooming,
lake-glistening letter of love to show us what he is planning for us in the age
to come..” -Piper
Will you join me this summer, in delighting in the Lord?
