The Desires Of Your Heart

 The Desires of Your Heart

Delight yourself in the LORD;

And He will give you the desires of your heart.

PSALM 37.4

Sometimes you may wonder if the things you want are desires that your Father wants to fulfil or if they are selfish desires. This verse gives assurance that if you delight in the Lord, He will give you the desires of your heart. Does that mean that God is like a cosmic Santa Claus, who will give us a Rolls-Royce and a mansion with a Jacuzzi simply because we want them?

The key to the meaning of this verse is to understand that God doesn’t simply give us what we desire. He is the one who places our desires within us as we delight ourselves in Him. In other words, He causes us to want what He wants us to want. And then He gives us those things.

Focus on Him, and then trust Him to put the desires in you that are right for you. Don’t overanalyse your motives. Just put your desires in His hands and know that He will deal with them in His way and timing.