God Knows Your Heart’s Desire
Psalm 21:2
You have given him his heart’s desire and have not withheld the request of his lips.
Many times, we feel like those deep desires we may have, seem like they will never come to pass. Matthew 7:7, 8 tells us, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be open to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.” This is insistent asking, without qualms, solidly presenting a requisition whose items God longs to distribute. He knows us so intimately, far more and far better than we could ever imagine. We had lost our first baby just two weeks before she was due to be born. That’s a story for another time. I desperately longed for another child. The doctors were not sure that I could conceive after what I had been through. I began to seek the Lord and ask Him that if I could get pregnant, could I become pregnant within that year of losing our first baby girl. I began to not feel so great after quite a few months of no sign of being pregnant again. Yet now I wasn’t feeling well. I went to see my doctor who tested to see if I could possibly be pregnant. Sure enough I was! What relief and great joy! And here’s the clincher—He said, “By the way, you got pregnant on February first,” exactly to the day of the accident that took our baby’s life. He gave us our heart’s desire! We were pregnant with our beautiful and longed for Andrea Lee! What a blessed joy upon hearing of our gift from the Lord Himself, and what a great day of rejoicing when she was born! Each one of our children, all five of them, have been celebrated deeply and wholeheartedly as our precious treasures and answers to the desires of our hearts. Dear one, God knows your heart’s desire as well. Be insistent in your asking, without qualms, solidly presenting your heart’s desires to Him. The word heart in Hebrew is “leb,’ meaning intellect, awareness, mind, inner person, inner feelings, deepest thoughts, inner self, a person’s inner yearnings. Psalm 37:5 says, “Commit (roll onto) your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass.” I love this next verse—Proverbs 16:3 “Commit your works to the Lord and your thoughts will be established.” “Commit” means to roll, roll down, roll away, remove. Roll your works, roll everything, every thought and desire into God’s care. Rest in the Lord. Wait patiently for Him. He has heard you. He’s heard every word, seen every tear, and heard every sigh and cry. Do not fret! Labor into His rest. He is a good, good Father and will hear and answer your heart’s cry. Lamentation 3:26 tells us, “It is good that one should hope.” Isaiah 7:4 says, “And wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.” Hope expectantly, dear one. He has heard your heart’s cry. His answer is on the way!
What about you? Are you telling the Lord fully what your heart’s desire is? Are you waiting and hoping expectantly or are you fretting and worrying about it? Keep your focus on the Lord. Don’t be fainthearted but full of praise and thanksgiving in expectancy of His answers to your heart’s cry. Our heavenly Father loves you so! Blessings on your day.
