Delight yourself also in the LORD, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4
Dr. Joseph Sizoo was a Washington D.C. pastor whose parishioners
included Robert Todd Lincoln, the eldest son of Abraham Lincoln. One day
Sizoo was allowed to handle the late president’s Bible. It was the
Bible from which Lincoln’s mother read to him and was the only
possession he carried with him from childhood. “Book in my hand,”
recalled Sizoo, “I wondered where it would fall open. It opened to a
page which was thumb marked and which he must have read many times. It
was the thirty-seventh Psalm.”1
How wonderful if our Bibles would turn automatically to Psalm 37. This passage tells us not to fret nor be envious. Rather trust in the Lord and feed on His faithfulness. Delight yourself also in the Lord and He shall give you the desires of your heart.
Is this true? Absolutely. But remember—delighting in the Lord changes our desires. When we delight in Him, we begin desiring what He desires for us. And having planted those desires in our hearts, the Lord is then only too happy to fulfill them.
Only as we truly delight in God is it safe to give us our desires, for then they are not likely to become idols.
John Eldredge, in The Journey of Desire
How wonderful if our Bibles would turn automatically to Psalm 37. This passage tells us not to fret nor be envious. Rather trust in the Lord and feed on His faithfulness. Delight yourself also in the Lord and He shall give you the desires of your heart.
Is this true? Absolutely. But remember—delighting in the Lord changes our desires. When we delight in Him, we begin desiring what He desires for us. And having planted those desires in our hearts, the Lord is then only too happy to fulfill them.
Only as we truly delight in God is it safe to give us our desires, for then they are not likely to become idols.
John Eldredge, in The Journey of Desire
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