Desires of Your Heart

Hello, I hope you have had a wonderful start to your new year. We've had new blessings along with new surprise and while each day brings new ideas and dreams my goal for the year stands firm; to lean on God wholeheartedly and just be in Him while living my life for Him, which leads me to something I think of often and I wanted to share it with you.

Delight yourself in the LORD; And He will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4

That verse has been a verse I've known all my life but until about last year, I guess I didn't truly grasp all that it meant and thankfully I do now. It has changed me and my desires for my life, my family, my marriage and my mission here on earth.

The verse is simply saying when you delight in the Lord first and foremost your desires are His desires for you. It's a circle that is worth staying in if you ask me. I think about this daily, because I am challenged and confronted often about what my "role" should be as a mom and wife. I used to come home or stew on certain comments, not because I was convicted or felt guilty but I was asking myself where does someone get the right to tell me what I should or shouldn't be doing in my situation, they don't know my heart and my mission that I feel God has given me.

Bringing me back to the verse, the only one I should ever allow to occupy my thoughts about my actions is God. The fact in itself that the delight of just HIM is good enough, but in return He gives us the desires we have buried in our hearts because they are no longer ours in human nature they are ours through getting close and personal with Him, we should want nothing more than to honor, love and live the life He has called us to live.

I have a calling, I know I do. I have had one for many years and it has been a long road and worth taking with some side trips, and now I see not the end but God's confirmation daily that I am in fact right where I'm supposed to be. It takes conscious thoughts and actions everyday to do my devotions, to write out a schedule that works for homeschooling and my other things, while keeping the house in order but it is so worth it. To see my children read, do math equations and play creatively and they know what I love to do also, they enjoy talking and being a part with me just a much as I love playing with them barbies and Lego. I get to listen to them laugh all day long, we get to explore new places and on cold winter days we like movie time and at bedtime there is no greater feeling than to snuggle with my husband and relax while telling him everything we did during the day and when I say everything I mean it, poor guy.

The point of my thoughts and why I'm sharing them is don't compare, don't let the words of others distract you from doing what God has placed on your heart and in your mind to do. But caution "good things" and "great ideas" pop into our minds all the time. So, before you stand firm on your "situation and calling" spend some time with God and start delighting in Him, because I guarantee once you do that, those comments will be defended on the Word of the Lord and you will be living the life He really has planned for you.

All He wants is for you to spend some time with Him and find your Delight in Him. It is the best place to be, so go and start with prayer and reading His word, all verses have been inspired by Him a personal story or letter just for us and then find a great devotional that speaks to your heart on (motherhood, wife, marriage, personal struggles, trusting, praying) dig deep because you'll end up finding the Desires of Your Heart through Him.

God Bless!
Joy