Rested Desires

Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.
Robert Collier (1885-1950, American writer, publisher)

2 Sam 23:5
5 "Truly is not my house so with God? For He has made an everlasting covenant with me, Ordered in all things, and secured; for all my salvation and all my desire, Will He not indeed make it grow? NASU

Do you trust God with your desires? What do I mean by that? I am asking you today if you could lay your life down in God’s hands and trust Him for all that He brings you, not what you could take. John Ruskin, a British social theorist, says it this way, “Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.”

David believed a promise made to him by God Himself that made his life ordered, and secured. Ordered because he trusts God to put it in order, and secure because he trusted God’s desire to bless him greatly. David trusted God with his life and salvation, and also with his life’s goals, as he said, “all of my desires.”

That is a big step for a Christian. A step that says to God, these are my life’s dreams and these are my wants, but I will trust and rest in Your desires for me. In order for us to succeed we must start this process within us that will make His desires for us greater than our own. It will come when we trust in Him fully, and lean not on our own understanding, and then He “Will” direct our path…God Bless.

Pastor William