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If our hearts delight in evil,
idolatry or wickedness, God will accede to our lifestyle, and we will reap the
destiny we are seeking for and searching out. It won’t end well. Never does
ultimately.
If our hearts delight in
achievement and success, we will either attain it or God will allow us to be
thwarted by frustration. Either way, achievement and success without God are
thwarted in the end. Building without God is vanity (Psalm 127:1).
If we take delight in the hope of
marriage, God doesn’t so much give us marriage, but an interest in it,
sufficient that we are open to its possibilities. But too much delight in
marriage takes us into idolatry.
If we take delight
in God, our hearts agree, and we cannot stop searching God himself in all we
do. And we see God searching us out in everything. We are taken on a journey of
surrender and faith and learning as we lean in day by day. Such a delight
doesn’t make our lives easier, but our lives have intrinsic meaning and are
more purposeful. When we delight in God, we take delight in serving, and we
find that in serving others we, ourselves, are set free.
Our hearts find what they search
for. The heart searches and ultimately finds what it delights in. The only pure
and rewarding delight is God. If you are miserable, ask your heart what it
delights in.
The heart only finds peace in discoveries
of truth and love and mercy and justice. And the like. Items of virtue,
spiritual in nature. Yet if we allow our hearts to chase anything else our
idolatry sees us bonded to a prison of our own making.
The heart delights in what it
searches for, and the heart searches for what it delights in. Delight in what
is worthy. Search for that which is fulfilling.
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