A Heart Drawn to God

Psalms 141:4  Let not my heart be drawn to what is evil, to take part in wicked deeds with men who are evildoers; let me not eat of their delicacies.

Delicacies are hard to resist.  It's interesting how the psalmist describes the sin of this world as "delicacies", things we cannot resist.  

A sister in Christ blessed us with "bukayo", sweetened buko strips (I don't know if I translated that correctly), and as much as I have to watch what I eat so I don't gain unnecessary weight, I couldn't resist eating this home made delicacy.  It was the same with the pizza a brother in Christ brought to our men's christmas party.  He arrived a little late, after we had all finished eating, but when he arrived with the pizza a number of us couldn't resist eating a slice.

Each one of us has that favorite delicacy that tempts us everyday - sexual sin, bad words/cursing, pride, etc.  And the reason why we fall into these sins easily is that we deal with them at the moment it is presented.  That makes it hard to resist.

This is why the psalmist began with the heart, not with the circumstance.  David said "let not my heart be drawn to what is evil".  It begins with the heart.  It is our heart that matters.  If you look at the psalm, it begins with what should be filling our hearts:

Psalms 141:1-3  A psalm of David. O LORD, I call to you; come quickly to me. Hear my voice when I call to you.  (2)  May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.  (3)  Set a guard over my mouth, O LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips.

A heart that calls to God.  A heart that prays.  And a heart that seeks to be guarded;  in this psalm David's request was for God to guard his lips.

Instead of having a heart drawn to what is evil, you will have a heart drawn to God. 

That's how you resist sin.  No matter how delicious sin may be, if you have a heart that is filled with God, that calls upon Him everyday, that enjoys sweet fellowship in prayer, you will have the strength and power to overcome the temptation, which comes from God.

 May our first delicacy be the goodness and love of our holy God, that our hearts will be drawn to Him, rather than the delicacies of this world.