{"id":13041,"date":"2025-08-28T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/?p=13041"},"modified":"2025-08-13T06:38:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:38:25","slug":"delight-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/28\/delight-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Delight Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One-minute read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Yellow-Flower-Email-Header-Instagram-Post-45-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Yellow-Flower-Email-Header-Instagram-Post-45-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Yellow-Flower-Email-Header-Instagram-Post-45-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Yellow-Flower-Email-Header-Instagram-Post-45-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Yellow-Flower-Email-Header-Instagram-Post-45.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Often misunderstood, delighting in the Lord means aligning your heart with His, in other words, submitting to His will instead of trying to bend God to your will. We think we know best, but we don\u2019t. Our limited perspective skews our thinking and doesn\u2019t take into account the entire picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During my single years, I struggled with why God didn\u2019t bring me a mate. Year after year slipped by as I navigated life alone. Today\u2019s verse challenged me because I had a desire for marriage, but the Lord had different plans for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMaybe it\u2019s not God\u2019s plan for you to be married? We align our heart with His, and then our desires become His desires.\u201d A friend said to me when I shared my discouragement with her. Telling me a hard truth, I didn\u2019t want to hear it. To gain the Lord\u2019s peace, I had to accept His will and submit my heart. Eventually, I submitted, and once I did, the Lord filled my heart\u2019s desire, not for a mate, but for a deeper relationship with my Creator. By the time Ron came along, I had found contentment in my singleness with my heavenly Father and had accepted Him as my mate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Align your heart with the Lord\u2019s, allowing His desires to become your own, and find all you need in the Savior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Summer Fun Activity:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Have a water balloon fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One-minute read. Often misunderstood, delighting in the Lord means aligning your heart with His, in other words, submitting to His will instead of trying to bend God to your will. We think we know best, but we don\u2019t. Our limited perspective skews our thinking and doesn\u2019t take into account the entire picture. During my single&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/28\/delight-yourself\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Delight Yourself<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13045,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13041\/revisions\/13045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}