8.20.8 "Your Heart's Desires"

"Your Heart's Desires"

Esther 8:1-10:3
I Corinthians 12:27-13:13
Psalm 37:1-11
Proverbs 21:23-24

"Be delighted with the Lord. Then he will give you all your heart's desires. Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him to help you do it and he will."

Just a simple thought today of placing your heart in the hand of God. What does it mean to be delighted with the Lord? I'm thinking that it's not something that's swayed by circumstance. It's allowing your heart to be filled with love for Him. It's living a life of trust. It's being so in love with him you can't help but say, "God, I'm excited about what you're doing in my life!" even when it's uncomfortable.

What are your heart's desires? I'm finding that as i begin to delight in the Lord, it's not a matter of him giving me what I want, it's a matter of me desiring what He wants. The closer we draw to Him, the more he places desires within us that align to his will. The passions that motivate us come into alignment with what he has set out to do in us and through us. My delight transforms my desires.

I'm a dreamer. I have all kinds of crazy plans and big things I'd like to do and see accomplished. There's a purpose for that. As I delight myself in the Lord, I see how he's placing proper perspective to all I have in my heart.

Sometimes we think if we commit everything to the Lord, and trust him to help us do it, it will be accomplished immediately in the way we imagined. Rarely is that the case. In the process of helping us in what we do, he has a way of molding us, purifying our motivations, our desires, our burdens and our vision.

There may be times we fear that if we commit everything to the Lord, He would never fulfill the desires. This fear comes from a lack of understanding the nature of the God who loves us so much. Matthew 7:9-11 says, "Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!"

It is paradoxical. In order to see our desires fulfilled we must completely die to the desires. We can't even be "mostly dead" to them. We have to place them COMPLETELY in his hands. We have to delight in him. That is only way we will find fulfillment. We must die to our dreams in order to live them out.

It's interesting that one of the most well known scripture readings is in today's reading as well. It's I Cor. 13... the "love" chapter. It can basically be outlined as this: Love is dying to self. All of us desperately need love, yet the only way to experience it to die to the need.

As difficult as it sounds, it's really a great place to be. Living in the freedom of knowing your heart is in the hands of the One who has all power, all knowledge, and loves you so much. Trust him today.



Through the Power of the Spirit,
Live the DREAM!

P Greg


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