The Heart's Cry: Psalm 37

Psalm 37

Psalm 37 has a bit of length to it and David spends a great deal of time on the concept that the wicked will soon be gone and that we need to have patience for their destruction, but in light of yesterday's post I would prefer to focus on two verse that I am for.

4 Take delight in the Lord,
and he will give you the desires of your heart

In Matthew 6 when Jesus teaches his disciples to pray he adds a portion that says 'Thy will be done' and in the garden when Jesus prays for deliverance he says 'Not my will, but thine' this lead me to believe that if we are concerned about God's will we will not be praying for things that are outside of what we think God wants for us and those around us. Here in verse 4 David says that God will give us the desires of our heart if we delight in the Lord. The thing is if we delight in the Lord our heart's desire will be for more of God, which God will freely give us.

+ Do you voice the desire for God's will to be done in your prayers? If so, how has that changed your prayers? If not, do you think that it would bring a change if you started?

7a Be still before the Lord, and wait patiently for him

Too often we want God to do X but then we never give God the space to do anything, because in order for God to move in our lives we must let God move in our lives. Or we want God to speak to us but then we never give God the space to speak to us, because in order to hear God sometimes we need to stop listening to everything else. Or we want Jesus to free us from our guilt but we never let go of our guilt. We too often don't stop moving, or stop listening to the noise, or stop holding on to those things we should let go of and because of that we hinder God's movement. We are like Jesus's hometown, we know him so well that we only let him be what he has already been, we never give Jesus the freedom to be something new to us.

+ How can you let go of & stop listening to those things that get in the way of your relationship with God?

+ How can you give God the space to move in your life?