Psalm 37:4 – Take delight in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalm 37:4 has a different meaning to some than to others. It is a matter of understanding the most basic things. It is building upon the firm foundation rather than on the “new thing,” especially when the “new thing” is really just a very old thing. This verse has a sister verse in Matthew 6:33 “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these thing will be given to you as well.” Jeremiah 29:13 “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” What does it mean to “take delight in the LORD?” Also what does it mean that “He will give you the desires of your heart?” The above verse in Matthew says to seek first His kingdom. Jeremiah reveals what it is to seek first His kingdom He tells us it is to seek God personally with all of our heart. It is to seek God like a man dying of thirst seeks water. It is to seek God like a man dying of hunger. It is to say to oneself that “God will be sought and found or I will perish because I want no other thing.” It is to be singularly focused with a life-need to know God. When we realize that to not have God makes having anything else we have not important. Jesus posed the question “What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?” (Mark 8:36) The meaning of life is knowing God. There is only one way to know God and that is through Jesus (John 14:6). All people are born with an innate craving that pulses within. The child, or the adult, cries out for what they know not. It is only when one turns to one’s Creator, Savior, and Lord and says “I must know You and nothing else matters” that things begin to turn around. It is when one longs to dwell every moment of one’s life with God that we begin to know it is only He who can sustain us through every moment of our lives, both here and beyond into eternity. Family, we all will live forever and we are all born with an anxiety, a seemingly unstoppable itch, to understand forever. We want to know how to walk from this life to our next life into the place of our destiny and peace. Those who seek with a solitary passion to know the Truth will find it as Jeremiah and Matthew tells us. We must realize our most basic need and seek it. Our most basic need is God. It is our most basic and the only truly fulfilling need we have. When we have God we have all. When we don’t have God we have nothing.
First we honestly and passionately we seek God. He, and everything about Him, is the fulfilment of us and everything about us. Once we find Him we seek no other and He floods us with His love and the realization of His promises. His love and promises are everything we need. We grow to know more of Him and the distractions of what this world has to offer become more disdainful to us. If we have the necessities of life, it is enough, because we have the Author of Life. He loves us. He has prepared all things to show us His love. More and more we learn that our only need is Him and that He is aware of all that we truly need and provides it. When we know God we trust Him, when we trust Him worry becomes a fading part of our lives as we are certain that He knows our needs much more than we know our needs (Matthew 6:25-34). Only He is absolutely able to provide all our needs.
We seek God. We find God. He becomes the delight of our heart. Therefore in seeking and knowing God we have all that we want because He is the only One that we can fully trust to always love us and never let us down. For all I pray that you have found the one Truth that ultimately is the only Truth that matters. That Truth is Jesus, through whom God has expressed Himself, and therefore His love, to all of us. Family and Friends, perhaps I may someday have only Him. In that, I will have all. May all of you have all, may you have Him. Love and praises and honor to our God and Savior!
Psalm 150:6 – Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!
Micah 7:7 – But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.
Micah 6:8 – He has shown You, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.