Desire

"My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song."


When is the last time your heart 'leapt for joy' over anything? Over God? This whole verse is telling us how God is going to take care of us, yet I would venture to guess that many of us look at it and think,'hmmm, that's nice.' I wonder if our response would be the same to a person who came and knocked on our door and told us that we would never have to worry about anything again because he would always be there to take care of us...and all we had to do it trust.

I think most of us would be jumping for joy, screaming out our thanks and telling everyone we knew. In fact, we wouldn't even have to go and tell people cause our faces would shine so brightly that everyone else would want to know our secret.

So, if that is the case, and this is such a wonderful gift, why aren't our hearts jumping for joy? I believe it all has to do with desire.

When we are in close communication with God, the desires of our hearts are pure and God grants them to us. Likewise, when we are far from God, he gives us over to the desires of our hearts (Rom 1:24; Rom 7:18).

Much like Adam and Eve in the garden - they had the opportunity to follow God and be granted the desires of their hearts, and leap for joy, or be given over to the desires of their heart.

That phrase, 'given over', sounds much like allowing the devil to do with us as he will. I have experienced some of this in my own life recently. I wanted something for myself - not a 'bad' thing, but something that took a lot of my focus from God. And you know what happened? God allowed me to follow my desire and it didn't pan out. I was feeling horrible and quite honestly, that is all I wanted to write about today. I didn't want to admit that I chose to follow my way instead of God's and that is why I got hurt, but it is what happened.

God must be the center of my life DAILY. I see that I can't go a moment without Him and allow myself to be swept away. I want to know that heart's joy all the time and not just in spurts.

So again, I choose to lay down my desires and follow Him.