The Cravings of Wandering Desires
September 4th, 2006 | by Ed |Hope you’re enjoying your Labor Day weekend. It was good to be back at church Sunday. I finished up a summer series on the Psalms (although I may add more messages from the Psalms from time to time).
I thought you might appreciate an excerpt from Sunday’s message, which was an expositiiion of Psalm 37:1-11:
Psalm 37:4 says, “Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.” God created us to find the ultimate fulfillment of our heart’s desires in Himself–in His will, in His ways, in His purposes, and in His Person.
Desires that are not fixed on God become unattached desires which float around looking for something to attach themselves to. The Biible calls this “the cravings of wandering desires.” Ecclesiastes 6:9 says, “Better is the sight of the eyes [i.e. the enjoyment of what is available to you], than the cravings of wandering desires.”
If God is not the delight of your heart, wandering desires will find something else to attach themselves to. However, desires attached to anything other than God will never find true satisfaction. Ultimately, we won’t satisfy the desires of our heart.
But, when God is the joy and delight of our heart, and our other desires radiate out from that central heart desire for God, then God gives us the desires of our hearts.
As the psalmist says in Psalm 73:25, “Whom have I in heaven but you? I desire you more than anything on earth.”
Have you made God the delight and central desire of your heart?