Desires of Your Heart Psalm 37:4

4Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.


Our scripture passage for today is a promise from the word of God that we can build and base our lives upon. Trust in God brings us the desires of our heart. When we place our trust in Him, He is able to do for us what He wants to do. As He is able to meet our needs and supply our joy, our desires will be met.

The desires of our heart are really joy, peace and contentment. How we achieve those things is a matter of choice that we must make. Our lives are the result of the choices that we make. Trusting God makes life really simple. We trust God and we walk where He tells us to walk and He is able to meet our needs and fight our battles and give us life that is everything that He intended for it to be. When we make the right choices and look to the real source of life, joy, peace and happiness permeate our lives.

When we choose to disobey God and we do things our way instead of His way, He is limited in His ability to do what He really wants to do for us. We end up working so hard trying to have the things that we think will give us this peace, joy and happiness. So often, we find ourselves in this endless cycle trying to work harder to have more to be happy and the more we get the more we want and the cycle never seems to bring us the satisfaction that we so much want.

The reason this is true is simple. God created us with the desire for peace, joy and happiness. He made us that way so He could fill that need. He is the only One who can efficiently and effectively fill that void. When we fail to trust Him, we lose the ability to have those needs met.

Commit your way to the Lord and trust Him and He shall bring this to pass. He is the only one who can bring it to pass. We can try on our own but we will not be able to find the desires of our heart. The world cannot supply it. Many men have tried to find answers to questions of life in the world but the answer always comes back the same conclusion that Solomon made, "All that the world has to offer is vanity or emptiness." The only thing that can satisfy is that which the Lord is able to do in us and for us. What He does is always satisfying for sure!