Give Him what You wants and He will give you what He wants
Your Moment at the Well
The Lord’s insight. The Lord delights in you when you want what He wants for you.
Psalm 37:7-8:” Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him. Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way. Do not fret – it only causes harm.”
Psalm 37:11: “But the meek shall inherit the earth and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.”
It only causes harm. I wish I had learned the truth of that statement long ago. When we fret, we are given to trying to bring about something that only the Lord can do. When we fret it will lead us to anger. Anger will lead us to wanting wrath. And wrath will lead us away for the lovingkindness of the Lord.
Indeed, fretting only causes harm because we are led to live by our own actions in reaction to the things happening around us. We may feel good about the actions we take before those who bother us, but this is not the way to live righteously before the Lord. The quickest way for us to get the Lord to act in our lives is for us to stop acting for Him.
I am not saying we do not have desires of our own. We all do. But we must learn to give our desires to the Lord so that in return we get His desires for us. It is probably not possible for us to have what we want and at the same time to have what God desires for us.
Psalm 37:11 is saying to us know how strong and how weak we are and to live in the humility of our weakness more than our strength. Learn to withhold your strength for another day when faced with something that comes against you. If you learn to keep yourself from acting by acting to give the Lord your desires, He will honor your patience and the strength it takes to wait and not act.
God will repay us by acting for us when we decide not to act on our own. When we decide not to act in anger, He acts on what angers us. When we decide not to fret or to be impatient, He acts for us on the things that would cause us to fret.
When you are bothered by this thing or that thing, find a place in the Lord to sit and to wait for Him to act for you. In Him, there will be peace. And peace is the thing we need most when our faith is challenged by something we desire. When we are at great peace with the Lord, we will have the strength to be at peace with the things that happen around us daily.
Now don’t misunderstand me on this. Being at peace doesn’t mean we are to just accept that we are helpless to change things around us. We are never helpless when the Lord is our Helper. When we are in the Lord, being at peace means that we have given the desires of our hearts over to the Lord.
When we give Him our desires, we are happy beyond measure with this. The joy we find in having given over to Him all that we want is more than anything that can cause us to worry or to stress. Learn to be so happy in the Lord that He is happy to give you the things you desire.
When you learn to want what the Lord wants you to have, He then is happy to give you His desire for you and your desires for yourself too. So, rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him no matter what you are facing. Do not fret at what is before you. Do not become angry at what comes at you. Do not fight with what is fighting against you.
There is strength is rest. There is overcoming is waiting. There is peace in humility. There is change in restraint. Exhaust yourself in waiting for the Lord more than in what you do to change the things around you. Remember, fretting only causes harm. Wait and do not fret. Give the thing that won’t change to the Lord.
If He doesn’t change the thing, He will change you so that the thing does not prosper against you as it has before.
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