NATURE , it is a source of pleasure,magnificant and splendid. Today i layed down on the green grasses,under a tree,whatching the ducks splashing their wings in the waterlake and the kids walking by them. Breezes on my face ,peacefull ,quiet atmoshphere and the sun reflecting on my hair.I was toying with the grass. I stole a rose.As i am writing this , i am reminded of Jona...
It is unbelievable how much i don't see the beauty that sorrounds me.Just the singing of the birds, (they don't worry about a thing and yet their havenly Father feeds them. How much more will He feed me? ) The trees, the lake nearby, the unexplainable balance they all form. The rain, the sweating heat of summer that creeps in my pores, the hills, the animals, the sky ,that vast and so moody sky. I have clouds and limitless blue in my fotos. You wonder and think the very words Max Lucado wrote in his book, 'In the grip of grace' :The loss of mystery has led to the loss of majesty.The more we know ,the less we believe.No wonder there is no wonder.We think we've figured it all out .Strange don't you think? Knowledge of the workings shouldn't negate wonder.Knowledge should stir wonder.Who has more reason to worship than the astronomer who has seen the stars? Than the surgeon who has held a heart? Than the oceanographer who has pondered the depths? 'And yes , i am all astonished ,and i want to know all. Not only nature brings joy to my heart but stirs my curiosity. NATURE is celebrated by five poems in the Psalms that sing of the stars and rain and grass and seasons with souls-stirring imagery and passion( Psalms 8,19,29,104,148)
Pleasure hemm, pleasure..let me see
HUMAN ARTISTRY,yeah Silv,it's art...creativity in food, in clothes,in dances, in builings,architecture, music, literature, paintings, baking cakes( don't ask me about cooking-
said in an euphemism : I can handle light food..) creativity in decorating your home, in producing new things (airplanes like the genius Howard Huse did in the true story of the movie Aviator) ,in theatre, in the Fanthom of the Opera, in the Andrea Bocelli's song i am just listening -Voglio stare cosi,the exquisite craftmanship in the temple (Exodus 31:1-11,Kings 7:15-22) and the sound of a harp(psalm 81-2) and the writing of 'words of delight'(Ecclesiastes 12:10) 'Words of delights 'might be literature. 3rd pleasure ? FAMILY
Oh yeah, the one that always warms my heart and makes me feel so welcome ,so loved, so secure, so appreciated. A great delight, a great pleasure,a great joy. Honor your father and listen to his word, show to your parents how much ,how so immensly you love them. A great pleasure serving them, a great pleasure talking to them filled with impatient waiting and wispers of love and promises. Falling in love all over ?
The parent whose quiver is full of children is 'blessed'=happy (Psalm 127-5) Grandchildren are exalted as a source of pleasure (Psalm 128
)Another pleasure ? ROMANTIC LOVE AND SEXUAL FULLFILLMENT-yeah it is godgiven pleasure, it is beautiful to feel attracted to sb else,to feel drawn to him in an unexplainable way that only your 6th sense can put 'some' sense in your mind.
It is through ignorance that people deprive themselves of this pleasure thinking they are sinning. Everybody has this need and i strongly believe that my Creator didn't give needs so that we can suffer.No way he is not sadistic.But there is always a strong,fine line between godly sexual fullfillment and immoral sexual fullfillment.The godly fullfillment is supposed to happen only in within a marriage. Our world is sadly already in the second one. Proverbs 5:18-19 shows a brief celebration of the sexual pleasures of married life. The Song of Songs elaborates on the joys of romantic passion. And yeah , it is sad but true ,when you overfullfill yourself of this kind of passion ,you get dissensitised ,you feel empty ,like a vessel with nothing inside.
SOCIAL LIFE AND COMMUNITY is all about pleasure. Pleasures of like-minded poeple , with the same goal and same joys, but with so different backgrounds, so different their paths and trials. They dwell together in joyous community. (Psalm 133 tells about it) Jesus himself contributed to the joy of family celebrations(John 2)
Friends, so dear to my heart, so constant in my life ,so up lifting, so much soul-building.They build you up, they are more than you can ask, they are just there whatching you how you succeed in life without envy or ill thinking, helping you when you think you can't make it.
CORPORATE WORSHIP is the last pleasure ,worshiping God for who he really is in a group of believers.It gives me so much pleasure when i sing to HIm and thank Him for all he gave me, all the pleasures in life,all the trials i have been going through and still am .
Reviewing these great pleasures all the problems and worries i was thinking about earlier dissapeared. Oh Father , i am soooo RICH.
Rejoice in the Lord always, I will say it again,Rejoice.Phil 4:4.
(it should be true for everybody cus we weren't created to remain in dark, in pain, in longing for sth to fill us -God is the one who is supposed to fill us up)