Your Heart Can’t Have What It Want

Your Heart Can’t Have What It Want

May 13, 2021

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Have you ever had a strong desire in your heart, and it seemed that no matter what you did or how much you prayed, it just wouldn’t happen?

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Let’s take a look at Psalm 37: 3-6.

Trust in the Lord, and do good;

    dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.

 Delight yourself in the Lord,

    and he will give you the desires of your heart.

 Commit your way to the Lord;

    trust in him, and he will act.

He will bring forth your righteousness as the light,

    and your justice as the noonday.

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God promises to give us the desires of our hearts. What if we are looking at this all wrong? I talked about this once before in a blog post. When we look at that phrase, it can easily have multiple meanings.

  1. God will give us our desires we have in our hearts.
  2. God will give us His desires, which we find in our hearts.

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It’s so easy to get confused unless you remember that all things work according to His will. When we remember that, it becomes clearer to understand what this phrase should mean for us. And that is the second meaning. 

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When you have a strong relationship with God and want His will to be done in your life. God will place desires in your heart. The desires that fall in line with His will for you.

The same goes with God removing certain desires from your heart that don’t fit with who He has planned for you to be. 

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The problem comes when we want something so bad, we don’t care whether it lines up with the will of God, and therefore, can only focus on that desire. We try to transfer ownership of that desire, by saying things like “if it’s in my heart, God will give it to me.” Or, “if it’s in my heart, it must be a desire from God.” These are those very desires that we pray for fervently, and do all we can to make happen, yet they never happen.

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Why? Because your heart can’t have what it wants. Your heart must want what God wants. As verse 4 says, “Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” That “and” should not be replaced with an or, you must delight yourself in the Lord. That’s where that relationship with God comes in. And also, verse 3a, “Trust in the Lord, and do good,” is another extension of that relationship and the faith you have in what God has planned for your life. 

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How does God give you the desires of your heart? When the will of man is aligned with the will of God, then the things that delight God will naturally become the joy of our own heart.

When we delight ourselves in the Lord and take pleasure in the things that are of great importance to God’s own heart, we will discover that they become the joy of our heart.

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xoxo Tish

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P.S. Do what makes your soul happy! – unknown

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