Psalm 37:4–"Delight yourselves in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart."
This is one of those verses that lends itself to misinterpretation. I have often heard this passage used as a license for prosperity as if this verse actually said: if you delight in the Lord in any sense whatsoever, then you can get whatever you want from Him. But, alas, that is not what this verse says. In fact, there is a complexity to this passage that speaks to its content. For one, this verse is saying that when we delight in the Lord we will receive the desires of our heart. To be sure, however, the point is that delighting in the Lord means that He Himself is the desire of our heart. In other words, if we truly desire the Lord, then we will receive Him!
This is a great and joyous truth. The point is that God transforms our desires to conform to His likeness so that we might desire that which is pure, true, and eternal: Him.
Let us then strive to love God and to desire Him and His glory above all other things!
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