There’s always a catch. A recent In Touch devotional reminded me of this verse. It sounds so easy to achieve everything you would ever want. The desires of thine heart would be yours, promised to you by God.
Wow!! Wealth beyond imagining. You could be right up there with Bill Gates and a couple of oil sheiks. You could have the very best of medical care. Forget that, with the desires of thine heart, you would be healthy forever, no need for physicians.
So, we look at the desires of thine heart without seeing the first part of that verse: Delight thyself also in the LORD
We need to consider what delighting ourselves in the Lord really means.
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. (Psalms 1:1-2)
Perhaps being a mirror of what delights God would help:
They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight. (Proverbs 11:20)
But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD. (Jeremiah 9:24)
What are the desires of our heart?
What do we really want out of life?
What are we being offered?
Where do we find our delight?
Where does God fit?
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