"Waits" and Measures ;)

"Trust in the Lord, and do good;

Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness.

Delight yourself also in the Lord,

And He shall give you the desires of your heart.

Commit your way to the Lord,

Trust also in Him,

And He shall bring it to pass.

He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light,

And your justice as the noonday.

Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him..."

~Psalm 37: 3-7 

I love these verses. They have the soothing effect on me that so many of the Psalms have. I love many many passages of the Bible, but the Psalms are to me some of the most inspiring. David (and the other psalmists) had every human emotion under the sun. They fretted, worried, sinned, fought, despaired, and yet there is always that element of a Psalm that is victorious. A waiting upon the Lord that prevails. They minister to my very soul in the moments when I am most tempted to take things into my own hands.

We single girls often take verse 4 to mean that the Lord will give us everything we desire--a husband, a home, a family of our own. And for many of us that will be a blessed reality. It is a beautiful promise that the Lord cares about the dreams of our heart. But there is an even greater assurance to be found in that verse. Have you ever looked at one of those optical-illusion pictures? You look at it one way and see an old man--you blink and suddenly you see a Spanish guitarist singing to a pretty senorita. Scripture is often that way for me--I read a verse I've read a dozen times and the Lord brings a new perspective out of the flat page and suddenly He is speaking to me. The Word is alive, isn't it? :)

"Delight yourself also in the Lord and He shall give you the desires of your heart." A while back I started to notice something intriguing and exciting about this verse. As we delight in the Lord, He will give us the desires of our heart. He will hand us desires and plant in us desires and as we delight in Him our hearts will conform to His image until our deepest desires are His desires.

That is what I noticed about this verse. I have a deep-rooted, deep-seated desire to be married and raise a family one day. I have told you before that in my own human, Emma-Woodhouse-ian mind I cannot see how on earth God will bring a husband to me. I don 't doubt His ability, but I do think it'll take a mountain of a miracle to bring us together. "All things conspire against the idea!" I might moan. ;) But God is entirely able--I know that much. :) For now I keep sacrificing that desire of marriage, praying fervently that if that desire is not part of His plan, that He will replace it with dreams of His own plans. And I know He will do that.

So let's continue on, desiring nothing but what He desires. And I'll let you know if that mountain of a miracle starts happening. ;)