Question:
There is a verse have read in Psalms that God will give me the desires of my heart. What does that mean? My heart desires everything good and bad. Help me. – Christine
Response:
Hello Christine, thank you for the question. Unfortunately, you have not referenced where the verse is in the Psalms. But let me guess you are either talking about Psalms 20:4 that says: “May he grant your heart’s desire, and fulfil all your plans” Or Psalms 37:4 that says “Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart”
If these are the verses then, let me say this:
There are many answers you will get from your spiritual or religious leaders depending on who they are. But as for me (Priest Isaiah-White), this is the answer I find more coherent and corresponding to reality.
Who are you?
I begin by asking a question that seeks identity. In a world where God and people co-exist, people are by default divided into two classes:
- People of God
- Covenant People
People of God are those created by God but don’t have any faith-based relationship with him for eternal purposes. People of God just desire and God is mandated to provide for those desires. In this world even the most atrocious and evil desires will be carried out successfully for God is under the obligation not to interrupt the choices of volitional beings for His (God’s) identity is to be consistent.
God is obligated to provide for these people and not involve himself in their affairs. He gives and what they use what he has given and how they be is none of God’s business.
Covenant People, on the other hand, are those people created by God but their relationship with God goes beyond creation and has redemptive tenets for eternal purposes. To these God gives and he still participates in the use of what he gives.
For the People of God, they do not have God as the reference of their wills and desires. It is the and what they want. However, Covenant People have to subject their wills to the will of God and their delights in the Lord. This is why the Psalter in 37:4 begun by saying: “DELIGHT IN THE LORD”
The chronology begins with God. Covenant People, unlike people of God, do not delight in themselves to receive the desires of their hearts, they instead delight in the Lord as a reflection of what is in their hearts.
Covent People are children of God and when they ask from the Lord, there is a discussion between them and their father who knows exactly what is best for them (Mathew 7:9-11)
So to answer your question, I would say, God gives people their desires and he will never interrupt whoever wants him out of his business. But God is a very responsible family man, who takes family seriously and protectively provides for his family.
Does that mean that covenant people do not have wayward desires? Absolutely not. Covenant people do have the same wrong desires and sometimes when they go to God and insist and persist on asking for what God, by all means, has made it clear will hurt them, but insist they want it, God still gives that.
It is just like helping a toddler understand the bitterness of a candle, you let the child touch. All this because we refused to listen to our father who was here before us. So God will let you marry that addict if you insist, he will let you into that business venture that will send you behind bars, if you are a wrongly persistent covenant people.
Quality of our Desires
But again, it is possible for a covenant person to ask for God’s provision to just serve their passions. For such people, it is wrong to claim using Psalms 20:4 (David was in a covenant with God) and Psalms 37:4.
According to James 4:3, you ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions God and the covenant people have a mission and that mission starts with them to others.
God wants covenant people to be conduits, channels but not stores of his blessings. God doesn’t want to bless you so that you can pile up and store his blessings for your future life (Luke 12:15-21).
Covent People are not a pool of God’s blessings but a river that goes through things blessing them and sharing with those things.
God delights in that desire and he will give you all your desires if they have that intention.
And trust me, flowing waters of the river are always clean and pure, and rivers never stop until the fountain does.
Am always theologically flowing, that is all I have from God , and am asking God for more theology because I want to continue flowing.
Now I ask, what are you asking for from God? And where are you planning to flow to? Is it to others? I mean others not just friends and family members or you want to circulate to yourself?
God bless you, I invoke Truth, Reason and Faith
Priest Isaiah White
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