Desire

Monday June 16, 2025

Good morning, Lord

Father in Heaven, I seek You first-the knowledge of Your kingdom and Your righteousness. Fill my consciousness constantly and complete Your joy in me as I take up my cross and follow...In Jesus' name…

Memory verse: Jeremiah 15:19 ESV

Therefore thus says the Lord: “If you return, I will restore you, and you shall stand before me. If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless, you shall be as my mouth. They shall turn to you, but you shall not turn to them.”

Verse of the day: Psalm 103:13

13 As a father shows compassion to his children,    so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.

Today’s Reading: Nehemiah 4-7 Acts 2:22-47 

The Right Desire….

Psalm 40:8- I desire to do your will, my God; your law is within my heart.

This scripture is a destination for me—for all of us. How do we arrive at a place where we want to do God’s will? How do we get to a place where we have the patience to wait on God’s Spirit to move us?

When do we get up one morning and realize that our love for God is with all our hearts, souls, and minds?

The answer waits in God’s heart.

That is so frustrating--another answer from a preacher that is ‘mud’- vague and ethereal. Why can’t someone just answer the question?

If it was easy, Jesus would not have had to die. I fought with the idea of sin being so offensive to God that it demanded blood. Why should it be so? I fought with the idea of God having to give up His son on my account. Really-come on-if I had been the only one, Christ would have still died? Yes. God did that for me?

Yes. God did that for all of us? Yes.

So, God did all this and much more and I am supposed to give up my heart and life and follow Him and my heart will be filled with desire to serve him and patience to wait on Him-just like that? It takes so much. But when we give our hearts to Christ, it is like no other commitment. God lets us live and love and function in a world full of sin and gives us His laws written in our hearts. His Holy Spirit is here every minute to fill our hearts and keep our minds occupied.

So do you desire to do God’s will with all your heart?

Maybe not right now---but your prayer for desire can always be there and that is where we must be. We must know that God will take the desire that He has planted in our hearts and grow it into what He intends for it to be.

It sounds as if I am talking in circles and I am---God saves us because of sin….we serve because we are saved. A lot goes in between-but hang tough. God will never dessert you—no matter how tough it gets or no matter how discouraged you get.

God’s desire is for your love to be real. Make your prayer for that desire to be fulfilled in your heart.

…because He loves us…

Father in Heaven,

Forgive my weak desire and build a fire in my heart. I want to love You with all of me.

Great God of tender mercies!

In the name of Jesus Christ,

Amen