Delight in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. (Psalm 37:4)

We all like the second half of this verse. What are the desires of our heart?

One of the desires is acquisitiveness; a desire to get more and more.

What is the reason for the desire for more?
We have a fear of not having enough.

Is acquisitiveness wrong? Psalm 103:2-5 does show God wants to satisfy us. God will give us more and more of good things.

Here is the key thing: God will satisfy us with good things and renew our youth like an eagle. God will grant the desires of our hearts but before that, we must first allow God to shape the desires of our hearts. Having the wrong desire is dangerous.

Other desires of the heart result in jealousy and rivalry. It’s not wrong until it results in low self-esteem from comparison with others accomplishments and achievements. We lose our value, think we are not good enough and think we are worthless.(Luke 9: 46)

We are not an accident and are part of God’s authority, design and purpose.

Vanity also is a result of the desires of our heart. Vanity destroys us. King Solomon, the richest and wisest man of his time, finally said that everything achieved is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 reveals that God has created everything and has granted to us eternity in our hearts that are confined to a life bound in time. Only God can fill the hole in our heart for eternity. Only then will vanity become victory.

The final thing most of us desire is power. Is God a controlling kind of God? Jesus was never a person who wanted power to control.

Delight yourself in the Lord and He will grant the desires of your heart.

Delight in God means being pliable and delicate in the hands of God to let Him shape up and do what He wants to do through us. Delight means surrender.

But what about our desires? Having our plans are easier than the plans of God which are perfect. The kingdom of darkness fears the plans of God in our lives.

We all love God for what He provides but can sometimes miss God. God wants to know if we are after the things God does or God Himself.