The Ease of Delight...

OK, he's back by popular demand. ..
So here we are, watching American Idol. On to the screen steps this “Ace” guy. (Who names their kid Ace, anyway?) Like millions of other Idol fans, both gals and guys alike, Cyndie’s face begins to turn a strange shade of red. Is she blushing, I ask myself as I stare right through her? No. Can’t be. Yep, she is. She is swooned right in front of me in the comfort and privacy of my own home…by some hippy-kid named “Ace”.
My point? The ease of delight.
Name your delight(s)? Do you find, like me, that whatever we delight in…it comes very, very, very easy? No straining of the will to delight in whatever we delight in. Easy and delight fit like glove on hand! Ace and blushing!
The real question is this: What is more delightful? Is there something, someone out there that stands head and shoulders above all other things, matchless in beauty, wonder, power, wisdom and truth? Can God, the Creator of everything compete in the finals of American Idol? Can He really compete with what you and I truly delight in day in and day out. After all, how can One who is invisible compete with what is always smack right in front of us 24-7?
Listen to Augustine on delight: (this audio biography is fantastic)
"Every man, whatsoever his condition, desires to be happy. There is no man who does not desire this, and each one desires it with such earnestness that he prefers it to all other things; whoever, in fact, desires other things, desires them for this end alone." And this desire, this delight, this longing for happiness governs the will. But here’s the catch: The delight that the will always follows…we do not determine!
Cyndie did not determine that Ace would invade our home. I did not determine the ease in which I now want to ring his neck! And you and I do not determine how incredibly matchless, infinitely breathtaking and glorious in every way, shape and form God is over and above everything there is! He just is. Has always been, is now and always will be…
Know where I’m going here? A greater delight ALWAYS tops a lesser one!
Our hearts ought to break into a million pieces as we so easily and quickly settle for lesser … infinitely lesser pleasures, while the God of All Glory stands before us, even displaying His glory in what has been made! Revival would be among us if we were to behold the “Ace’s” of all kinds in this life, and see the God of Glory in them. Then we move into a whole ‘nother category when we speak of the Glory of God displayed in Jesus Christ! A perfect, bleeding Savior who cameinto our world to give His life for us in order that we might experience the Greatest and Most Supreme Delight there is...even God!

Our faith is weak, Lord. We don’t see Jesus as we should. Please cure our blindness…Please help us…
Big love,
Danny