The desires of your heart

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.