The Desires of Your Heart

Have you ever wondered if God really knew what was best for you?

Hey GEM girls! Sometimes it is really easy to become blinded by the desires of our hearts. We get so wrapped up in the idea of what we want or what we believe we need that we don't stop to think if it is what is best for us. Sometimes we look to the wrong people or things to fill our desires and make us feel complete.

It's completely normal to deeply desire things such as stability at home, faithful friends, or even a romantic relationship. But sometimes we can become so focused on something that we make it our priority, even above God. It doesn't even have to be a bad thing that we desire, it could be something good too. God has designed us to give and receive love. We are in effect "love machines". That is how we function. Without love we would die. Quite literally.

I recently read about a very disturbing study that was attempting to research the necessity of human touch and love for a baby to develop. Babies in the study were deprived of any human touch. The "handlers" were not allowed to make skin to skin contact with any of the babies or to even speak to them. Tragically, all of the babies died at a very young age. This horrific and brutal experiment proves the point that we need love to live.

The world is full of people who are living their whole lives in search of finding a true undying love. Hundreds of romance movies tell a fairytale of two people stumbling into each other and magically falling in love and then living happily ever after. But the truth is no matter how many times we try to find this love on our own we will fail. Happily ever afters don't exist without God. What these movies tend to exclude is the fact that God is the only match-maker that can help us discover a love that will never die. But first He is asking us to fall in love with Him...

If Jesus is not our first love any relationship with any guy is going to fall apart. If Jesus is not first in our lives when we "stumble" across our Prince Charming we forget the most important part of what makes "happily-ever-after" happy. Before we know it, our relationship has fallen apart because it was not built on Jesus.

I am speaking from experience when I say it's not an easy thing to do to put Jesus first. It's so easy to be swept away in an attempt to create our own fairytale and forget to let Jesus write our love story. But I can promise you that He is the only Author that can truly fill the longing for love in our hearts. He only asks one thing of us, to fall in love with Him first and to let Him hold the pen that writes our love story, and our life story.

Psalms 37:4 says, "Delight yourself also in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart."

Love,

Your Sister in Christ,