My Inspiration

God-Shaped Desires

By William King | Email: kingwilliam189@gmail.com | image medium.com

We all want God to do some amazing things in our lives, but it just doesn’t happen on its own. If we want God to do great things, to give us the desires of our hearts, we can’t just sit on the couch waiting. We have to pursue God every day. God’s promises and blessings come with conditions that we must meet in our hearts.

The Scripture says, “Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desire of your heart” (Psalm 37:4). While we want God to give us our heart’s desires, God first wants to shape His desires in our hearts so that He can bring out the best in us.

The condition of your heart must be to delight in Him, which means you find your joy and happiness, your purpose and meaning, in Him.

Do you see that what you delight in is what shapes your desires? God wants to give you the desires of your heart as long as you have allowed Him to be the delight of your heart.

Those two must meet together. What are you delighting in? What are you investing in? Where are you spending your time? How are you shaping your desires? Sometimes we have the wrong desire and we struggle to make it happen on our own, because we don’t allow our delight to first be in our God.

When you delight in the Lord, you love what the Lord loves. You love the things that God loves. You want to do what God wants to do. You want to go where God wants you to go. You want to listen and watch what He approves of. When you love God, your desires are for the things of God.

The apostle Paul sums up what I’m trying to say: “The heart regulates the hands” (2Corinthians 8:12). What is in your heart, you put your hands to. What you’ve allowed to form in your heart, you go after because you have passion. Your hands and your heart work together.