Psa
37:4 - Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your
heart.
"Just give me what I want and then I will be happy..." said a child to their parent.
Unfortunately, that only lasts for a short time before the child wants something else (just look at how long Christmas gifts last before they are no longer interesting.). When desires lead, they don't last long.
But finding delight in righteousness can lead for a lifetime. When our passion for God and His righteousness is what we want, then desires get into the back seat and ride along properly. It's when we are happy to have God that we discover we have everything we could ever want. Loving God changes our desires and then He gives them to us.
But be careful...loving God is different than loving what God can give you. If our motive for living God is to get what we want in life, ten we are really just manipulating God instead of loving him. And that's not much different than all the others David wrote about in the Psalm. Desires are god instead of the Lord.
If we truly pursue God, then the desires will eventually match up with what God wants. And if desires take the front seat, then we will be all over the road looking for the next thing we want. Pursue God and desire are met, pursue desires and never meet either.
One of the hardest disciplines of the Christian life is to keep the desires in check. Not abandoning them, but not letting them trump God's rightful place in front. How are you doing on that today? What can you do to remin yourself to desire God first?
"Just give me what I want and then I will be happy..." said a child to their parent.
Unfortunately, that only lasts for a short time before the child wants something else (just look at how long Christmas gifts last before they are no longer interesting.). When desires lead, they don't last long.
But finding delight in righteousness can lead for a lifetime. When our passion for God and His righteousness is what we want, then desires get into the back seat and ride along properly. It's when we are happy to have God that we discover we have everything we could ever want. Loving God changes our desires and then He gives them to us.
But be careful...loving God is different than loving what God can give you. If our motive for living God is to get what we want in life, ten we are really just manipulating God instead of loving him. And that's not much different than all the others David wrote about in the Psalm. Desires are god instead of the Lord.
If we truly pursue God, then the desires will eventually match up with what God wants. And if desires take the front seat, then we will be all over the road looking for the next thing we want. Pursue God and desire are met, pursue desires and never meet either.
One of the hardest disciplines of the Christian life is to keep the desires in check. Not abandoning them, but not letting them trump God's rightful place in front. How are you doing on that today? What can you do to remin yourself to desire God first?
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