He Will Give You Your Desires

Psalm 37:4-7

Delight yourself in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. 5 Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass. 6 He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday. 7 Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way…

When I first read this verse I felt like I had just won the lottery. God is going to giving me everything I have hoped, dreamed, and prayed for! Although this is all very true, I think it’s easy to skip over the first part of Psalm 37:4 and go right to the second part. God loves to give good gifts to His children. He won’t give us stones when we ask for bread (Matthew 7:7-11). BUT what is this verse really saying?

Delight yourself in the Lord. What does that look like? It looks like finding your joy, purpose, and strength in relationship with Jesus Christ. A few of the words that stick out to me in verses 4-7 are delight, commit, trust, rest, and patiently. When we truly begin to delight in our relationship with Jesus, are desires are no longer our own but His. We desire to do His work. We desire to run the race set before us and fulfill the God given call on our lives. It is an exciting thing to find your call but it can also be overwhelming. When we commit our way lives to the Lord, trust His leadership, rest in knowing that He is good and patiently wait for it to come to pass, God can do GREAT things in us and through us.

When we are whole heartedly pursuing our relationship with Jesus Christ we truly find our purpose. Our God placed desires are awakened. I don’t think this verse is meant to tell us that God is going to bless us with that Bentley we have been desiring (although He totally could). What it is saying is that when we pursue our relationship with Jesus, we will find new joy and purpose for our lives. Jesus’ purpose for our life is bigger than we can imagine and attain in our own strength. 

Eye’s On The Call, Missed Relationship

When God speaks to you and gives you direction for your life, it is important that you are obedient to do what He told you. However, this shouldn't be done at the expense of your relationship with Him.

I have always been a very driven person. Sometimes I think I am rather like a horse with blinders on. I set my eyes on something and work like crazy until it is accomplished. About ten months ago I felt the Lord directing me to start my own business. I quit my job, moved back in with my parents and got to work. It was definitely a time of adjustment. I worked and worked and worked but I started to feel like I was just spinning my wheels and I was also feeling zero inspiration. This led to extreme frustration and even anxiety, wondering if I had really heard God’s voice to make this big transition.

God has a great sense of humor and is very good at getting our attention. I began to realize that as I jumped head first into working on my business I had missed the most important thing. I had made myself so busy that I had neglected pursing my relationship with Jesus. No wonder I felt miserable and uninspired!

I think it is too easy to get so focused on life and our “call” that we miss the ultimate reason we were created for—to have meaningful relationship with Jesus Christ. As I came to this realization and re-prioritized, it was amazing to see how even my circumstances changed. Not only was I again walking in divine inspiration, but I had so much more joy, doors of opportunity began to open, my productivity increased and there was a noticeable increase in financial provision.

Jesus desires relationship. He will do whatever it takes to get our attention. If we put our relationship with Him before our “call,” and our productivity, our “call” will happen, but not by our doing and our productivity with increase.