Encouragement
Delight thyself also in the Lord
and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
Commit thy way unto the Lord;
trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass.
Psalm 37:4-5
I remember when I first read and memorized these verses. A commentary said that "He shall give thee the desires of thine heart" was not to say that God would give you anything and everything you ever wanted, but rather that He would give you the desires to have; He would place within you His desires for you. At the time I appreciated the thought, but I hadn’t experienced it.
Recently, I read that God has given us His Spirit to help us achieve His purposes not our dreams. At first I was rather put off by this concept, which brought the above verses to my mind. There seemed to be a disconnect somewhere.
As I thought back on my life and where I had been, I realized that at the time I first read these verses from the Psalms, I had no more desire to write or teach than I had to fly. However, as I walked with God, He seemed to awaken desires or dreams I had never considered. In fact, I remember the exact moment the dream to teach God's Word came to me. I was sitting in the middle of my bed, surrounded by my Bible, notebook, commentaries, and Strong's Concordance, and I had just made a startling discovery. Reading through Leviticus, I saw how precisely God had planned and foretold the suffering and death of the Messiah. I realized that Jesus hung on the cross to the specific moment that the priests were sacrificing the Passover lambs in the Temple to fulfill the prophetic picture. All I wanted to do at that moment was to gather some friends together to take them through the wonder of God's plan and to share the amazing love of Christ.
After God awakened that dream within me, He brought people into my life to confirm that this was His will for me. Then, He opened the door for me to begin walking in the dream! In an amazing series of circumstances, God opened doors I would never have dreamed possible.
Later, God began to tweak the dream. One morning, He touched my heart with His Word, and I HAD to share it. I sent the passage of Scripture with a short comment to my friends via email. That was the point that my blog, A Thought for Today, was born with my dream of writing to encourage and exhort the body of Christ.
I guess that I am beginning to see that as we walk with God, His purposes and our dreams become one. If we delight in Him, as we are seeking Him, He will place within us the very dreams that He intends to use in us to fulfill His purposes. Now as I look at those verses from the Psalms, I am able to appreciate them with a heart that has experienced the truth they present. God has both given me the desires of my heart, and I believe I see Him bringing them to pass.
When you think about it, how amazing is it that the God of all creation cares about our dreams and our hearts. Of all the religions in the world and all the concepts about 'a higher power' that are out there, could anyone have possibly imagined a God like ours? I am so thankful to know Him and so grateful that He ever considered revealing Himself to me. I love Him so much, not only for what He does in and through my life, but for WHO HE IS!!
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I loved this article and you are so right. Many times we sometime think "our" dreams are the primary when it is really "HIS" dreams that bring us peace and contentment. Thank you for sharing this. GOD BLESS YOU.
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