How Is Your Heart Today? Day 3 of 7 Your Heart’s Desire What is the desire of your heart? An ideal partner to share your life with? A good job? A home of your own? Peace of mind? Are there desires that are still unfulfilled? Many people have many ways of reaching for their heart’s desire--we strive, work night and day, plan and strategize, even beg, steal or borrow. But do you know that the Bible gives us one sure, pleasant and blessed way to find what our hearts long for? Psalm 37:4 says, “Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” I love this verse. What it is really saying is--spend time with God, put Him first, know Him well, discover how much He loves you. Then your heart will find what it seeks. Now you may be asking, “If I delight myself in the Lord this way, then I can have anything in the world I want?” No it doesn’t work that way. The word for delight in Hebrew means to be dependent upon God and to derive one’s pleasure from Him. Do you rely on God completely? Do you relish his constant presence in your life? If you are doing that, then God has become the first and central desire of your heart. The promise here is not that God will gift you with a Mercedes Benz, the latest and most expensive cell phone model, or a mansion in Europe, though He can give all that. After all, he owns the universe. But God wants to give us something far, far better. He wants to give us Himself--His love as Father, His Kingdom, and no less than His one and only Son, Jesus Christ. Romans 8:32 says, “He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all--how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?” God is a generous Father who wants to give the best to us, His children. That may also include a life partner, a home, a fulfilling job, and the other longings of our hearts. He may not give us all the things we want, but all we truly need to live a godly life on this earth full of His peace, love and joy. May you delight in Him as He delights in you! Psalm 37:4 Romans 8:32 Psalm 37:4 MSG 3-4 Get insurance with God and do a good deed, settle down and stick to your last. Keep company with God , get in on the best. 39-40 The spacious, free life is from God , it’s also protected and safe. God -strengthened, we’re delivered from evil— when we run to him, he saves us. Romans 8:32 MSG 31-39 So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn’t gladly and freely do for us? And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God’s chosen? Who would dare even to point a finger? The One who died for us—who was raised to life for us!—is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us. Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ’s love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture: They kill us in cold blood because they hate you. We’re sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one. None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. I’m absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 09:42:41 +0000
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