God's Promises to Us When - We are Filled With Longings

Thought For Today - May 15
 God's Promises To Us When – We Are filled with Longings
By: Robert A. Searles

     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 the Lord 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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