My Joy & My Delight | Horizons Fellow Ashley Prillerman '24

To know God and trust in His plans. To seek the place where He dwells and make a place for Him in my life. To make Him my joy and my delight.

This statement stems from Psalm 43:3-4:

“Send me your light and faithful love, let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell. Then I will go before the altar of God, to God my joy and my delight.”

I have been meditating on this Psalm for a couple weeks, thinking about how it reflects my relationship with God. It recounts moments of blessing from God while pursuing a desire to be closer to Him. It shows admiration and devotion to Him as I seek His glory before the altar. It desires to make Him my joy and my delight. So what if my relationship with God? A mere following of His commands, an adherence to His Word? I think a relationship confined to that lacks love. God commands us before all else “Love the Lord your God”. To love Him leads to delight in His commands. To love Him means to delight in His wonder. To love Him means to delight in His love for me.

Ashley Prillerman was a Horizons Fellow ‘23-’24.