The Desire Of Your Heart
The following is an exerpt from this week’s Restoration Principles posted in the FAM Fellowship section of our site:
Most of us are familiar with the promise in Psalm 37:4, but we rarely hear much said about the instruction found with it in verses 3 through 8, which say:
3 Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.
4 Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart.
5 Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this:
6 He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.
7 Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.
8 Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret—it leads only to evil.
Those are some pretty explicit instructions, yet we never hear them in the context of delighting ourselves in the Lord and getting the desire of our hearts! It’s also amazing to see how many of the principles of marriage restoration are actually wrapped up in so few verses.
Then, earlier in Psalm 1:3-5, the Lord tells us:
1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.
Everyone standing for marriage restoration should find great hope and comfort in these verses, because they hold the key to all that we want, especially our heart’s desire for the restoration of our marriages. The key provided here is time spent studying the Bible, “the law of the Lord”, which the last few verses tell us to do day and night. So if we REALLY want the desire of our heart, we will pay close attention to the promises and instruction found in these verses, and do our best to follow them. If we’re not willing to do that, we can’t blame God or anyone else for our failure to experience a restored marriage.