It’s easy for us to spend so much time focusing on everything we don’t like or don’t have, that we leave ourselves precious little time to focus on what we actually want.
So, what do you want?
To be happy? Fair enough, but that will require you to actually go a step further and 1) define what happiness means to you and 2) determine how you can achieve it.
More time? OK, but that desire presumes you also have in mind exactly how you would spend that extra time if you had it… and could then figure out how to get it.
More money? Join the club! Who wouldn’t mind a bit more money? Again, though, “more” is not a very helpful description – how much more do you want? And for what?
Funny how we can be so very specific in pinpointing everything in life that we dislike or don’t want, but we let ourselves off the hook when it comes to being specific about what we do want. Instead, we just speak in vague generalities – more of this or more of that… and we wonder why we never seem to get what we want. Why should we expect to get “it” when we haven’t even specified exactly what “it” is?
What if I told you there was a way to get anything you want? It’s true. There is a way. It’s laid out for us in Psalm 37:4:
Delight yourself in the Lord,
and he will give you the desires of your heart” (ESV).
Do you want to receive whatever your heart desires? Then simply align the desires of your heart with your delight in the Lord, and you’ll get whatever you want. So will the Lord.