God's Promises To Us When – We Are
filled with Longings
What are the longings and desires
of your heart today? Is it for improved health; long life; for more
friends; for a more secure future; for prosperity; for a better job;
to find your life's companion; to get married and have a family; To
complete your education; are these and perhaps many more the major
longings of your heart today?
These are the most common kinds of
longings and desires which we all share, and if put into the right
perspective, they are all good longings and desires in themselves.
But there is something that we all ought to crave and long for more
than anything else, and that is – our eternally secure relationship
with God our heavenly Father. For the truth of the whole matter is,
if all of our carnal desires were to be fulfilled, they are temporal,
and can satisfy for only a short time, for what is our life but a
vapor which soon passes away and is eventually gone?
We ought to be longing to know God in
the fullest sense of the word through our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ. We ought to delight ourselves in the Lord, and share with
him those things that we most earnestly desire and long for.
The Lord has promised to plant in our
heart the right kinds of longings and desires, and to bring them to
fruition if we will delight ourselves in him. “Delight thyself
also in the Lord and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.”
Psalm 37: 4. God has promised not to withhold any good thing from
those that walk uprightly. “For theLord God is a sun and shield:
the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold
from them that walk uprightly.” Psalm 84: 11.
God promises to satisfy our mouth with
good things and to renew our youth. “Who satsifieth thy mouth with
good things, and reneweth thy youth like ther eagle.” Psalm 103: 5
God already knows the things that are
most needful to us, and he has promissed to supply all of our needs,
and give us the grace we need for every situation, if we will seek
him first, all these things shall be added to us. “And seek ye not
what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of a
doubtful mind. For all these things do the nations of the world seek
after, and you Father knoweth ye have need of those things, but
rather seek ye the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added
unto you.” Luke 12: 29-31.
For he satisfieth the longing soul
and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.” Psalm 107:9
We have a very rich heavenly Father who
is more than willing to share his bounty with us if we will approach
him in faith through the Lord Jesus Christ. Let us go to him today
with all our longings and desires, and trust that he will grant to us
all that will be good for us and bring glory to him.
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