What we desire most.

Is there something you really enjoy having or doing but it requires that you disobey God to have or do it? Leviticus 25:18-22 offers a lesson on how God protects and provides for those who sacrificially live within His will and obey His commands:

Follow my decrees and be careful to obey my laws, and you will live safely in the land. Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live there in safety. You may ask, 'What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest our crops?' I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years. While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.

It is often difficult to simply trust that God will bless us abundantly when we yield to His Word. We feel as though He's not working fast enough to fulfill our needs or that our lives may never happen the way we want them to if we put all our outcomes in His hands. But that is exactly what He wants us to do.

God is fully aware of the desires of our hearts as well as the needs of our bodies, well before we are! (Read Matthew 6:8; Psalm 37:4-7.) What God desires, however, is for you and me to consider Him as our Greatest Desire and our Sufficiency, so much so that we stop striving to get whatever else it is we want and completely trust that He will give it to us at the right time--His time.

I have been guilty of not waiting on Yahweh to act on my behalf and grant my desires; how about you? It never seems to work out the best when I run ahead of Him and answer my own wants through disobedience. Besides, I don't know what wonderful blessings He has waiting in the wings if and when I do wait for Him in obedience.

Let's begin waiting on and delighting in the Lord instead. Watch how He responds to our obedience. And if things never turn out the way we hoped it would? I'm betting we'll be pleased with the results either way, if not on this earth then in the new, everlasting one.