Delight thy self also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart (Ps. 37:4).
It is natural for us to set up our desires and then go about to secure them, forgetting that we should first seek the Lord and His righteousness, expecting that all these things will be added unto us (Matt. 6:33). God's way is just the opposite. He would have us seek Him first and delight ourselves in Him. Then that will have a transforming power upon us. When we delight ourselves in the Lord, He can give us the desires of our hearts, because they will be the right desires.
God often overrules in strange ways to bring these right desires to pass. For instance, Columbus, disheartened and discouraged, on his way back to France stopped at a convent near Huelva. A monk heard his story, and he was the man who intervened in his behalf with Queen Isabella.
On his way to Strasbourg John Calvin found the regular road closed because of war, was forced to pass through Geneva. There Farel with fiery eloquence demanded that he stay and lead the work of God.
Abraham Lincoln, in sorting over a barrel of rubbish, came upon a copy of Blackstone's Commentaries. That chance discovery awakened desires in his heart that changed the history of the world.
George Whitefield, unable to get along with his brother's wife, gave up his employment as bartender in the Bell Inn. Step by step he went to Oxford, where he came in contact with the Holy Club and became one of he world's greatest preachers. He said that the disagreement he had had with his sister-in-law was God's way of forcing him out of the business of drawing wine for drunkards, and into that of drawing water from the well of salvation for His spiritual Israel.
MEDITATION PRAYER: "He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them" (Ps. 145:19).
It is natural for us to set up our desires and then go about to secure them, forgetting that we should first seek the Lord and His righteousness, expecting that all these things will be added unto us (Matt. 6:33). God's way is just the opposite. He would have us seek Him first and delight ourselves in Him. Then that will have a transforming power upon us. When we delight ourselves in the Lord, He can give us the desires of our hearts, because they will be the right desires.
God often overrules in strange ways to bring these right desires to pass. For instance, Columbus, disheartened and discouraged, on his way back to France stopped at a convent near Huelva. A monk heard his story, and he was the man who intervened in his behalf with Queen Isabella.
On his way to Strasbourg John Calvin found the regular road closed because of war, was forced to pass through Geneva. There Farel with fiery eloquence demanded that he stay and lead the work of God.
Abraham Lincoln, in sorting over a barrel of rubbish, came upon a copy of Blackstone's Commentaries. That chance discovery awakened desires in his heart that changed the history of the world.
George Whitefield, unable to get along with his brother's wife, gave up his employment as bartender in the Bell Inn. Step by step he went to Oxford, where he came in contact with the Holy Club and became one of he world's greatest preachers. He said that the disagreement he had had with his sister-in-law was God's way of forcing him out of the business of drawing wine for drunkards, and into that of drawing water from the well of salvation for His spiritual Israel.
MEDITATION PRAYER: "He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them" (Ps. 145:19).
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