TfTD – The Car of My Dreams

I have the car of my dreams.  It is something that I always wanted a nice car and not an SUV.  I did not particularly  want one of those highly expensive mercedes-type cars.  A   nice, reliable, and comfortable  car that gets my wife and I from point A to point B, is what I wanted.  I was driving in it the other day when I realized that I was driving in the car of my dreams.

Also, with me being grateful to God, I sometimes get messages out of things like this, so, in that spirit of gratefulness to God, I was thinking about Psalm 37:4.  It says:

“Delight thyself also in the Lord: and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart.” 

I told myself that there is a difference between delight and desire.  Delight is joy or some other nice word, while desire is a want or an aspiration.  The difference is that we can desire something like the car of our dreams or like a good wife, but we cannot delight in it until we get.  That’s kind of like, “Point 1.

Point 1.  We can desire something, but we cannot delight in it until we get it.  However, it is possible that we can delight in our desire because we have it; “desire”, that is.  But we cannot delight in the car or the good wife until we get it.  I concede that a lot of times the joy is not in the got, but in the getting.  So we do have to have the thing before we can delight in it.  At least, I think so.

Point 2.  We want things because we think that the possession of it will bring delight with the operative word being, “bring”.  We do not have it but we aspire to it.  In as far as Psalm 37:4 goes, if the sentence itself confirms the normal sequence, then the delight comes first and the acquisition of it comes second.  First, it says, “Delight thyself also in the Lord.”  Then it says, “and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart.”  Point 3 is what I think it really means.

Point 3.  If our delight is truly, emphatically, absolutely, in the Lord, then we truly want what He wants.  Therefore, with us wanting what He also wants, it is a done deal.  He will give it to us.

Conclusion

The point of this TfTD is not to present a formula, to encourage us to delight in the Lord and there is a definite spiritual path to delighting in the Lord.  The path is to  repent and receive Christ, which results in the reception of a new nature, all of which occurs in one fell swoop.  It is like a collection of rollerskating moves that are done in one fell swoop.  That new nature delights in God’s will, God’s ways and God’s gifts.  The new nature is the reason why I am willing to change directions when I discover His will because I want what He wants.  His dreams are my dreams.  As much as I love the car of my dreams, I would give it up if I knew that it was His will.  I thank God for all of His gifts and I need to close by saying that one of my biggest dreams is that He use me mightly in His service.

God bless.