I hear this a lot “Don’t worry, He will give you the desires of
your heart.” And I have stood on that
and brought it to remembrance a lot. It
has also been the “justification” if you will, of my anger toward God when in
my mind He hasn’t followed through with that.
But – as I was riding along with my
daddy on the back of his motorcycle yesterday I had a lot of prayer and
reflection time and God urged me to look at the whole of that verse.
Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your
heart.
DELIGHT – what does “to
delight” mean?
de·light
(noun)
a strong feeling of happiness :
great pleasure or satisfaction
delight (verb)
to make (someone) very happy : to
give (someone) great pleasure or satisfaction
So it seems that delight is
similar to praise – Give great pleasure (delight) to the Lord and I believe he
will return that by giving you a strong feeling of happiness.
Now –
back to me. I have NOT been pulling
through on my part of that verse. I have
been expecting God to give me the desires of my heart without focusing on
delighting myself in Him! That must
change!!
Let’s go one step further though –
What is this verse in context? Lets look
at the surrounding verses.
Psalm37:3-5 says:
Trust in the Lord and do good;
dwell in the land and enjoy safe patsures.
Take delight in the Lord; and He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in Him and
He will do this.
There is a lot more to this than
we want to actually do before “demanding” of God the desires of my heart (which
unfortunately is what I feel like I have been doing lately). He has spoken quietly into my heart like a
good father does and said – “Tosha – TRUST me. Do what I
have asked of you (do good). ENJOY what
I have given you already. Take great
pleasure in me – I will come through.
Commit yourself to me – my timing is perfect timing. It is okay to not be in control.”
And as I take a deep sigh – I let
this sink into my heart of hearts. He
will come through – I do not have to be in control.
