Emotions... hope... delight

Emotions...
As a female I at times get blown away by my emotions.

I've been trying to take time to try and take every thought and make it obedient to God. That means my emotions too... This week I was so burdened with some prayer requests and with my own life expectations that have not happened before the century closed I sat praying and journaling about how to deal with these emotions. God gave me freedom to verbalize the emotions on paper and leave them before Him and I felt his direction to seek scripture to replace my thoughts and emotions with truth. I felt like he showed me to focus on the word Delight I searched scriptures and focused in Psalms. The thing that struck me as I searched it in biblegateway.com was that many times David spoke of taking delight in scriptures. (Psalms 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law does he meditate day and night) Do I delight in following God's requests and truths? I enjoy knowing truth, but it's work to follow His commands, and at times demands sacrifice. Am I ready to delight in sacrifice? I hope to one day to be mature in my faith to be able to say that with truth and emotion....

Until then, I focused on
Psalms 147 -- Great is our Lord and mighty in power; his understanding has no limit... the Lord delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love


Psalms 18:19 He brought me out into a spacious place he rescued me because he delighted in me.

Psalms 37 Do not fret...Trust in the Lord and do good...Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart...Commit your way to the Lord .... be still before the Lord (this chapter put together many truths that friends have been sharing with me -- it's interesting how God repeats himself until we hear him) If the Lord delights in a man's way he makes his steps firm.

I've been rereading these for the last three days...storing them in my memory

Today I went to bible study... what did I hear? ...
Isaiah 62:1-5
3 You will be a crown of splendor in the LORD's hand,
a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

4 No longer will they call you Deserted,
or name your land Desolate.
But you will be called Hephzibah, [Means my delight is in her]
and your land Beulah [ means married] ;
for the LORD will take delight in you,
and your land will be married.

5 As a young man marries a maiden,
so will your sons [c] marry you;
as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride,
so will your God rejoice over you.

So there's His emotion for us.... he takes delight in us when we follow his ways, repent, and allow him to mold us to follow his commands and guidance -- he delights in us and will be married to us - he will commit to loving us for life. He does delight in us -- he wants us to follow him.
Wow -- I bring delight to the Creator, Designer of the universe, Master of time and space, the Beginning and the End the Creator of love -- this Being delights in me when I follow Him.... now that's some emotion I need to focus my hope on...