Psalm 63:1 O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My body longs for you in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
Review
We are studying 7 ways to intensify our love for God from Ps.63. The first of those 7 was resolve - resolve to prefer God over sin and the world. And for that to last it requires a careful counting of the cost.
Another step was hungering and thirsting for God. Thirst for God is a figure of speech that refers to a desire to be satisfied by a mystical fellowship with God through direct, personal experience of His attributes.
You can never make any progress spiritually unless you find a way to increase your desire (thirst) for God. And one way to do that is by taking advantage of the thirst-intensifying effect of suffering.
If you do not have any real suffering going on but you want to work at intensifying your hunger and thirst for God, one great way to do that is by fasting – especially fasting during times when you have a lot of exposure to food. When I first started working at Dominos my favorite part was all the free pizza. Whenever there was a bad order or a mistake, that pizza would get set out and the employees could eat it. And after a while I realized that after every single run the first place my eyes would go would be to that area where the crew pizzas would be, to see if there was anything there.
So for a while I decided I would fast every Monday until the end of my shift. So every time I got back from a run my eyes would go to that area to see if there were any pizzas, and then I would be reminded, “Oh yeah – I am fasting.” And I would use that as a memory cue to remind me to think about hungering and thirsting for God.
Every morning in my devotions I pick a new attribute of God to focus on that day. So if that day’s attribute was, say, God’s mercy, each time I remembered I would think about hungering and thirsting for an experience of God’s mercy: If my eyes were opened to all that is wonderful about God’s mercy, and if I experienced that ray of His glory, my soul would be filled with joy and greatly satisfied. If I went on 30 runs in a shift, then in just the space of a few hours I would have thought about how hungering and thirsting for God’s mercy 30 times. (On other days when I did not do that I might go the whole shift and only think about it one or two times.) By the end of the shift I would have a longing and desire for God’s mercy way beyond what I had before.
And then at the end of the shift I would eat. And my mind would be so thoroughly focused on hungering and thirsting for an experience of God’s mercy… , that my enjoyment of the food I was eating would remind me in very vivid ways how satisfying it was going to be when I finally did feast on an experience of His mercy. So if you use fasting in that way it can be a great substitute for suffering.
Then last week we talked about waiting on the Lord. Waiting on God involves both the eager anticipation of fellowship with Him and the decision not to seek any substitute. Suffering is wasted if it is not turned to waiting.
Next we began to look at the concept of seeking God. Seeking God means making an effort to fulfill your longing for God. We found that satisfying fellowship with God is always available, but not easy to attain. It requires earnest seeking – even for people like David. Idolaters seek maximum enjoyment of people, things and activities. Christian idolaters use God to maximize their enjoyment of people, things and activities. True worshippers seek only to maximize their enjoyment of God.
God is the joy of all rejoicing, the source of all fullness. If you enjoy something in the creation as an expression of His love, that is worship. If you enjoy something in the creation without reference to Him, that is idolatry. All pleasures are like a mailman, or an engagement ring. If you are interested in the mailman itself, you are an adulterer. If you are interested in the ring and not what it means, you are an idolater.
The things that will keep you out of heaven
As we learn the truths about idolatry in Scripture, and we begin to see how prevalent idolatry is in the life of every believer, it is crucial that we not conclude from that that it is not a serious issue. God regards the idolatry of enjoying the creation without reference to Him just as seriously as He regarded Israel’s bowing down to false gods in the OT.
The dumb excuses parable
Lk.14:15-24 one of those at the table …. said to Jesus, "Blessed is the man who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God." 16 Jesus replied: "A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests. 17 At the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, 'Come, for everything is now ready.'
Heaven will begin with a huge, wonderful banquet where believers will sit at the table with the Lord Himself. And the guy in v.15 was right – the people who are going to be in on that are blessed. But Jesus wants them to know that not everyone will get to come to that banquet and go to heaven. And many people will not get to go for some very stupid reasons. Everyone is invited. But…
18 " they all began to make excuses. The first said, 'I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please excuse me.' 19 "Another said, 'I have just bought five yoke of oxen , and I am on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.' 20 "Still another said, 'I just got married, so I can not come.'
What kind of idiot buys a field without looking at it before buying it? You bought some oxen and you need to try them out so you can not come to a meal? Why not just come to the meal and try out the oxen later? You just got married? Bring your wife!
Obviously these are all just excuses. The real truth is these people just do not want to come. They do not care about the meal. It is not a delight to them. They want to get all their happiness from oxen and marriage and fields and not from this great, generous, rich man.
24 I tell you, not one of those men who were invited will get a taste of my banquet.
The shocking thing about this parable is the things that keep people out of heaven. What threatens to keep you out of heaven? Is it drugs and alcohol? Stealing? Murder? Those things do keep people out of heaven, but they are not the threat Jesus talks about here. The things that threaten to keep you out of heaven for eternity are real estate, oxen and marriage. In other words, your family and the things you buy. What threatens to keep you out of heaven is your house, the things in your house, and the people you love the most. The good gifts from God will keep you out of heaven. This matter of idolatry is very serious.
Appetite: Why do Earthly Pleasures Seem so Satisfying?
We have been seeing over and over in Scripture that the experience of the presence of God will be more satisfying than anything in the created world. God’s love is better than life. So what are we supposed to do with the fact that it so often does not seem that way? How do I deal with the reality of my experience? I spend time in my devotions or at church, and I enjoy that, but it is not as thrilling or enjoyable as the pleasures of this world.
The pleasures of sin, the amusements of the world, the world’s delicacies – folly’s feast tastes so good. For the drunk, there is just nothing quite like the feeling of drinking. For the person caught up in sexual sin, spending time in prayer does not come anywhere near the kind of pleasure associated with his immorality. If I have some Bronco tickets and my plans are to go to church at 9:00 and the Bronco game at 2:00, what am I supposed to do with the fact that I am looking forward to 2:00 more than I am 9:00? What am I supposed to do with the fact that I look forward more to watching the next episode of whatever on TV than I do to my devotions? Most people, if they were honest, would admit that they can not even imagine reading the Bible being more pleasurable than reading a good fiction book or their favorite magazine or a newspaper or a Playboy or whatever it is their soul has an appetite for. Many of us can hardly imagine having a prayer time each day that would actually be more enjoyable than watching a movie.
How did David get so he really preferred the presence of God over everything in life? Was it just because he did not have recreation or entertainment available? No. David was a king. He had a lot more available to him than we have available to us. I think we can gain great insight into the answers to these questions by thinking carefully about the concept of appetite. The Lord teaches us a great deal about what it means to seek and experience Him by comparing our spiritual appetites to our physical appetites. In fact, I think that is probably one of the main reasons God created us with physical appetites.
There are two main organs involved in appetite – your taste buds and your stomach. If you have a problem with appetite, those are the two things you need to examine to discover the problem.
Taste buds
Suppose there is a guy in your family who has some kind of disorder and starts eating and drinking all kinds of bizarre, disgusting things. He drinks acid and eats every disgusting bug and chews on sharp rocks and broken glass until finally he destroys his mouth and his ability to taste and the part of his mind that can understand taste. So now his taste buds and the nerves in his mouth are almost completely ruined. He gets to the point where he can not enjoy food at all. He can not even feel it or taste it – it brings no pleasure at all. His body still needs food, but his mouth just does not enjoy it. He becomes pathetic. You see him at Thanksgiving and everyone but him is around the table thoroughly enjoying the food - nothing but smiles all around the table as people are eating turkey and stuffing and potatoes and warm, flakey, buttery crescent rolls and pumpkin pie, apple pie, cherry pie, ice cream, and you feel so sorry for this guy who can not taste. He sees the joy everyone else has, and he wants some of that, but he can not taste anything.
His nerves are so badly damaged that the only way he can feel anything on his tongue is if he touches a 9-volt battery to his tongue. So you see this poor guy off in the corner, all by himself, and he just keeps touching the battery to his tongue so he can feel something in his mouth. You give him a piece of pie, puts one little bit in his mouth, spits it out and goes back to his battery.
Eventually the 9-volt is not enough, so he finds bigger and bigger electrical charges to zap his mouth with something he can feel. And the more he does that, the more damage it does to the nerves, and the farther he gets from being able to be satisfied by food. Meanwhile he is dying of starvation.
That is what it is like when in your heart reading Psalms or Romans does nothing for you but reading a magazine or book or committing some sin does - or when you would rather go to the mall than to church. Fellowship with Christ is like the Thanksgiving dinner and the mall is like the battery. The best pleasures of this world are like that battery.
When we enjoy God’s presence so infrequently and have such small experiences of it and we spend so much time enjoying the world that our sense of taste in our soul becomes ruined, so that sin and the little thrills of this world seem so much more desirable than what God offers; it is not because the pleasures of sin and this world are really that great (they are like a battery on your tongue at Thanksgiving). It is just that your senses are deadened so much that the little zap of sensation you feel from the sin is all you are able to feel. It seems like the best feeling there is, because you can not conceive of any other feeling. You try putting real food in your mouth, but there is no tingling sensation at all. The guy without taste takes a bite of pie and tastes nothing (for him it is like chewing cardboard) - he can not imagine how eating that could ever feel as good as the battery on his tongue. Just like you can not imagine how reading your Bible or praying could be more enjoyable than watching a movie or a football game.
The Bible is like a book with two rules. When you read all God’s laws in the Bible and all his commandments, it is kind of like God is the head of the house at Thanksgiving and he says this: “Only two rules in this house – 1) Enjoy the meal, and 2) no batteries.”
Enjoying the meal honors Him as a great cook. And He does not want you to use electrical charges because He loves His own glory and He loves you. He does not want to be dishonored as a bad cook, nor does He want you to ruin your taste buds and end up in a miserable life where you can not enjoy food.
So when the guy who gets caught with the battery says, “I want to get the sin out of my life. I want to stop using this battery, but I just do not have enough self-discipline,” and you try to help him, you will never be content with him just giving up batteries. If you love him, you will not be satisfied until his taste buds are repaired so he can enjoy food again.
My goal in giving you that illustration is to achieve two things. First, to make it clear in your mind that preferring the world’s feast is a disorder, not just a matter of personal preference or taste. It is not that you like vanilla and God is telling you to start liking chocolate. What our flesh craves is something that does tingle a little, but that can not satisfy. It can only damage.
But the other reason for making this illustration this was is to underscore the fact that a supernatural action is required to repair the problem. Are there some practical things you can do to taste and see that the Lord is good? Yes, and we will study those in great detail. But you need to understand at the outset that none of those things will work unless God simply decides to do a special, sovereign work in your soul. So everything we do from here on out has to be saturated with desperation-type praying. “God, please, please, please fix my taste buds. There is no doctor in the world who knows how to repair taste buds. Only You can do it. Please, dear Father, have mercy on me and repair the taste buds of my soul.” That is basically what the psalmist is praying in Ps.141:1 Let not my heart be drawn to what is evil … let me not eat of their delicacies.
And if you sense any hunger in your soul at all for God Himself, rejoice over that! Do you realize what an incredible grace that is? If you have an appetite for God, you are way, way, way ahead of the game. Gaining that appetite is the hardest part.
Psalms 84:1 How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD Almighty! 2 My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
It takes a great joy to get your soul to yearn for something. It takes and even greater joy for it to faint for that thing. And it takes an even greater joy to bring your flesh and soul and whole being to cry out or shout for joy. Most of us are not even at stage one.
Stomach
The other place to look when you have an appetite problem is your stomach. I think the reason the pleasures of this world, which cannot satisfy, seem like they do satisfy on the short term is because we have become spiritual anorexics. Scripture is very clear that God wants us to think of our soul as being like your stomach. In fact, the Hebrew word for soul is sometimes even translated “appetite.” (Isa.5:14) That is the meaning of the word, because that is what your soul is – the seat of your appetites.
When you do not eat, your stomach shrinks. When you eat a lot, it stretches out. After a prolonged period of fasting, your stomach shrinks so small that you can eat one or two bites and feel stuffed. But after a time of binging and stuffing yourself, you can get so you do not feel satisfied until you have eaten 2000 calories. All 1 or 2 bites does is make you feel hungrier. An anorexic is someone whose stomach is satisfied by amounts of food that are so tiny that they are not enough to sustain life. Her stomach may feel satisfied, but her body is starving to death.
Your soul is like that. God designed you to only be satisfied with huge pleasures – I mean HUGE pleasures (the kind that can only come through fellowship with God and enjoying His presence). That is the only way to get a pleasure that is big enough to really satisfy the human soul. And that is what we need to sustain life and health.
Ps.119:32 I shall run the way of Your commandments, For You will enlarge my heart.
Isa.60:5 Then you will look and be radiant, your heart will tremble and be enlarged with joy; the wealth on the seas will be brought to you, to you the riches of the nations will come.
Before God can give you what He wants to give you your heart needs to be enlarged to handle it. But when we become spiritual anorexics, and go a long time without experiencing that kind of pleasure, it is like the soul shrinks down so small that it seems like little, tiny pleasures will satisfy it. So you watch a movie or do some other recreation without paying any attention to God, and it feels satisfying for a little while because your soul has shrunk down so small. But it does not keep you satisfied, and you begin to die – it is not enough to keep you going.
What we want is to experience those huge pleasures God designed us for so we can enlarge our soul to be able to handle even bigger pleasures. When you do that, the tiny little one-calorie pleasures of this world will not satisfy, nor will they even seem to satisfy. You will look at them and they will look like a crumb on your plate.
Does that mean I will not be able to enjoy earthly pleasures?
One person responded to this teaching with this remark: “If that is true, then all the pleasures of life will not be enjoyable anymore.”
It is true that once you stretch out your soul and experience the HUGE pleasure of fellowship with God you will not be able to enjoy tiny things anymore, but that is OK because there is never a time when all you have is tiny things available. 24 hours a day you always have the HUGE pleasure of fellowship with God available!
Understand also that it is not that playing a video game or enjoying a piece of candy is necessarily a small pleasure. Playing a game or eating some candy can either be a small pleasure or a HUGE pleasure. If you focus only on the game or the candy, it is a small pleasure. And yes, it is true – after your stretch out your soul that tiny pleasure will never be enough for you again.
But, you can get the HUGE pleasure of fellowship with God through the game or the candy if you just see them as love gifts from God, and instead of just saying, “Umm, tastes good” and walking away you look at it and say, “This is a mailman. This little piece of candy is carrying a message from my Father in Heaven! It is like getting a ring from Him inviting me to enjoy Him. It is an example He created to show me something about what the pleasures of His presence are like and what He is like! It is a little window that gives me a peek into heaven! It is a gift from Him designed to show me His love for me! And if I enjoy the candy or the game and then turn around and give Him a response of grateful love – so that when I enjoy the candy I am enjoying His love for me, then I will begin to experience the HUGE pleasure that really can satisfy my soul.”
How do you know if you are experiencing some earthly pleasure as a tiny pleasure or a huge pleasure? Look at the results in your heart. True fellowship with God causes increased desire for God, greater joy, contentment, love, awe, encouragement, etc. Enjoyment of earthly pleasures in a way that is not fellowship with God has the opposite effect – reduction of overall contentment, less desire to spend time in prayer and Scripture, etc. (If you spend 5 hours watching TV and claiming that it is a huge pleasure because you are fellowshipping with God the whole time, but afterward your flesh is strengthened, your spirit weakened, heaven seems more remote and God less desirable; you are kidding yourself.)
Earthly pleasures can be enjoyed as long as they are enjoyed in the way God intended when He wrapped the present. Have you ever seen a 1 year old open presents? When Carolyn-Nicole was a baby, if I bought her a brand new jeep and put the key in a box and wrapped it up, the only enjoyment she could get out of it would be to stick the wrapping paper in her mouth. But now that she is becoming an adult she can understand the significance of seeing a Jeep key in the box. Was she happy as a baby to get some paper to put in her mouth? Yes. But if you compare the kind of happiness she had about the paper with the happiness she would have now if she got the Jeep, then you know the difference between enjoying pleasures that God provides just as earthly pleasures and enjoying them as gifts from God.
Most of the time we enjoy God’s gifts to us like a baby enjoying wrapping paper. When you have a nice meal or watch a great movie, and you enjoy it without thinking about the God who gave it to you, you are just chewing on the wrapping paper. And the goal of this study is to bring us from being babies to being adults so we can enjoy what is in the box each time God gives us some pleasure.
This principle will fill your life with so much joy, it is amazing. I always thought my marriage was a very good marriage, but since I have begun to understand these principles – now that I am learning to enjoy Tracy as an expression of my fellowship with God (I used to enjoy her like wrapping paper), I am starting to see the love of God that is in the box. I think I can say without exaggeration that I have received more pleasure from Tracy over the past year and a half than over the whole previous 15 years combined. The same goes for my enjoyment of my kids and my parents and sisters and friends. I used to have to work hard to squeeze time with my kids into my schedule. Now I desire to spend time with them so intensely that I find a way to do it. And I think they can tell the difference. When you enjoy some earthly pleasure as part of your enjoyment of the presence of God there is an intensity and depth of pleasure that exceeds anything you can imagine.
The Joy of Seeking
In the last lesson we established that 1) fellowship with God is always available, 2) it is not easy to find, and requires earnest seeking. Usually when something is especially difficult we do not desire to do it. In most cases you only do difficult things when the goal you are trying to reach is so good that it makes all the hard work worth it. And the goal of seeking after the experience of God’s presence is certainly a good enough goal that it would make any painful process worth it. However, we need to realize that while seeking God is a difficult process, it is not a miserable process. In fact, it is a wonderful process that is itself desirable. In Ps.27:4 David requested only one thing of the Lord – that he might dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of his life. And the reason David wanted to do that was so that he could engage in two activities. The first activity was to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord. (We’ll talk about that when we get to v.2) The second activity was to seek God.
Ps 27:4 One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple.
David’s one desire was to be in a place where he could do two things: gaze and seek. Seeking God is not just the difficult price you have to pay to get the good result of finding fellowship with Him. Seeking God is itself a wonderful, desirable thing. And I think the reason is because seeking God is a kind of seeking that involves a lot of finding. There is joy in the seeking when there is a lot of finding. If a kid never found a single egg Easter after Easter, he would soon grow tired of Easter egg hunts. But kids like Easter egg hunts because they always find lots of eggs.
It is interesting to me that most kids would rather do an Easter egg hunt than just walk up to a table with a bunch of eggs and grab a basketful. There is enjoyment in the seeking, provided the seeking is fruitful enough. Why is that? Again, it goes back to the concept of thirst. The enjoyment of satisfaction rises in proportion to the level of anticipation. The woman who searched her whole house for the lost coin in Lk.15 was so happy she threw a party when she found it. She did not throw a party over her other coins that were never lost. The Prodigal’s father had a huge feast because he was so happy that his lost son was now found. God designed our faculties of joy to be properly fulfilled only after a time of longing and seeking and expectation. You are much more excited about getting a breath of air after being deprived of air for 2 minutes than you are right now. You are a lot happier to be handed a diploma after 4 years of hard work than you would be if they came out of a vending machine.
So why is not it joyful for me?
Perhaps you are thinking, “Why is it not that enjoyable for me? I read my Bible and it is hardly enjoyable at all. My prayer time is one of the least enjoyable times of my day. In this egg hunt it seems like do not find near enough eggs to make me excited about the hunt.”
If you have not found the process of seeking God to be a joyful one, there are a few possibilities. One could be lack of faith. Another could be lack of eagerness in your seeking. And third could be that your seeking is not really a seeking after God, but for something else.
Lack of Faith
One reason some people do not enjoy the process of seeking fellowship with God is because of little faith. They are like a kid who is not sure there are any eggs. They have not experienced the presence of God in the past enough to even have the confidence that it will be as wonderful as it is cracked up to be.
If that is the case for you the solution is in Ps.34:8
Ps.34:8 Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
Craving will never happen until there has been some tasting.
1 Pe.2:2-3 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk…3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
Craving only comes after there has been sufficient tasting. In the last lesson we found that we should get so we can’t wait to spend time with God – just like a kid can’t wait to open presents on his birthday. Why does a kid get excited? How does he know he will like opening presents? The only reason a kid gets excited about opening gifts is because of his memories of past gifts. Have you ever seen a kid get a present on his first birthday? To him it is just a box. He couldn’t care less what is inside – he does not even know there is anything inside. So he does not get excited when he sees the box. But by the time he is 10, when he sees of gifts on his birthday, he gets excited because he remembers from the past what it is like to open presents.
The reason David couldn’t wait to be in the presence of God was because he had experienced times with God that were so sweet and so good and so satisfying and so exhilarating that he automatically had this kind of longing for the next time. We see that in Ps.63. His longing and hungering and intense thirsting in v.1 is based on his past tasting that he describes in v.2, where he talks about how in the past he experienced God’s glory and power. That is what it means to taste and see.
Ask God for that. “God please, let me have an experience of Your love that is so enjoyable I will get a taste for You that makes me want more and more.” On the bag of one popular brand of potato chips it says, “You can’t eat just one.” That is how it is with fellowship with God. If I do not hunger for it it is because I have not really tasted it. If I hunger for it only a tiny bit it is because I have only tasted it a tiny bit. That is our goal with fellowship with God – to get enough of a taste of it that we will crave it constantly.
My goal is for my whole life to be either tasting or feasting. What I want to avoid at all costs is using God’s goodness without tasting it.
Taste is an interesting thing. A taste is something that can not be known any other way than by the actual experience of tasting. No amount of knowledge can replace the experience. I could get some food that you have never tried, and give you an hour long lecture on exactly how salty it is, or how sweet, what the texture is like, how firm it is, how much fat it has and you would still have no idea what it actually tasted like. The only way to know a taste is to actually experience it. That is why a person can sit in church and learn about God for 50 years but never really love spending time with Him. If you never really experience that fellowship with Him – if you never taste it – you will never want it.
But not even all experience is really tasting. It is possible to just wolf down a bunch of food and swallow it just to get some calories to get through the day and to be so distracted there is no actual tasting and enjoyment of the goodness of the food. You can do that with God too. That is what you do when you have your devotions just because you figure you need them to get you through the day, but you do not really stop to enjoy God. Some people have devotions in the morning and it is more like taking vitamins than it is like feasting on a wonderful breakfast. They do not taste of the goodness of fellowship with God. The vitamins of God’s Word do not work unless you taste and enjoy them.
Another thing that can keep you from tasting is if you have the gravel of this world or the vomit of sin in your mouth. You can only taste one thing at a time. If you are trying to enjoy sin, or trying to enjoy the world apart from God, you can not enjoy God at the same time. You have to pick one or the other.
In fact, it seems like it takes a certain amount of time after spitting out those other things before your mouth is clean enough to really taste God’s goodness. Even when you have repented, it is hard to taste the goodness of fellowship with God right after you have committed some sin that really grieved Him. That is one reason to be scared to death of sin. When I sin against God and choose to delight in something other than Him, it may take some time before I will ever be able to taste the sweetness of fellowship with Him again.
Isa.8:17 I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in him.
There is a period in which God turns His face away and withholds intimacy. In fact, the decision to sin can sometimes prevent a person from even being able to repent for a time. Deciding to sin can have a hardening effect on your heart that makes repentance impossible.
Hos.5:4-6 "Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. A spirit of prostitution is in their heart; … 6 When they go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, they will not find him; he has withdrawn himself from them.
That is a horrible thought! We should be willing to do anything to avoid that.
Try to make your whole day a tasting of the goodness of God. Every time you enjoy something or feel a good feeling or think of something you would enjoy – remember that the experience of His love is better than that thing. And the experience of His love is available every moment! His love is showering down all over me like a downpour of the sweetest, best tasting drink you have ever tasted, but to stand in the downpour is not necessarily to experience His love. You have to stick out your tongue and taste the sweetness of it. Make it your goal to walk around all day with your tongue out.
Another way to increase your faith is my making your soul listen to the Word of God – especially God’s great and precious promises. Faith comes through hearing the Word of God. If you are going to believe something, you have to know what it is you are believing. Find the promises in Scripture that describe how wonderful the presence of God is. Find promises about how wonderful fellowship with Him is. Find promises about how wonderful relational knowledge of Him is. And then let your soul just rest on those and take delight in them. Memorize them so that you can meditate on them so that you can take delight in them and trust in them. That will increase your faith.
