when do you feel God's pleasure?

just finished reading the cure for the common life, living in your sweet spot. by max lucado. good read.

i had been making notes on it and one of the things i wrote was 'when do you feel God's pleasure?' i thought at some point i would figure that out and answer the question. i did - yesterday after helping to make and serve lunch at a luncheon for seniors. i was reminded of feeling God's pleasure when i was picking up garbage after serving lunch at union gospel mission. i was reminded of feeling God's pleasure when i was serving food to a house full of drug addicted, alcoholic street people. so much so that tears were streaming down my face. this was a big thing that 3 years before i couldn't have imagined doing.

when do you feel God's pleasure?

recently in one of my devotionals i read something about a young woman that had been an athlete in school, she had excelled at playing a variety of sports and just naturally assumed that was her calling in life and expected that would be the key to her future. she was quite surprised to find that although sports was something she enjoyed and was very good at, it wasn't her sweet spot. it wasn't when she felt God's pleasure.

for as much as i love my job, it's not when i feel God's pleasure. we have been given spiritual gifts and i expect that when we are using our gifts that that is when we feel God's pleasure. are you using your spiritual gifts?

where is your sweet spot?

i don't know if this is so much about using my spiritual gift of service or just the fact that Jesus came to serve others and to be an example that we can show God's love by serving others.

whatever they are, if you are using your spiritual gifts, you will feel God's pleasure.

if you aren't you don't know what you're missing. you have been blessed with certain gifts and when you use them you are a blessing to others.