What does it mean, to delight?

I was reading Psalm 37 this morning, when that question passed through my mind. As an optimist, I'm always committed to believing that there's a "good" side to every situation and even the hardest struggles can end in victory. But as I contemplated "delight" it felt like a foreign word to my optimistic outlook. It came across as something far more present tense than I had previously considered it.

Delight is a noun not a verb, which is something I learned from Webster. Here's what else Webster says about delight:

1 : a high degree of gratification : JOY; also : extreme satisfaction
2 : something that gives great pleasure delight
3 archaic : the power of affording pleasure

Now those who know me well, might say that I'm not much of a delighter, and that would be true. I think I've become a cynic and an idealist and these characteristics override the delighting nature. It appears to me that delighting is something that has to be nourished and thoughtfully nurtured. It doesn't appear that delighting would come natural to a cynical idealist. And yet, in the 37 Psalm, delighting is a win-win choice for one who has a personal relationship with the sovereign God of the universe.

Verse 4 reads, "Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you your heart’s desires." To delight in God is a mutually beneficial thing to do. As I consider being in a state of living, where I have obtained the desires of my heart, I have to admit that the effort I would put out to override my cynical idealist would be worth it. To remove the obstacles in my soul that make finding delight in God difficult, would clear the way to receive those things that would really bring true satisfaction in the deepest place of my heart.

Is He your delight? What obstacles are in your should that keep that from happening?