My Dreams vs. Your Dreams

A long time ago (8th or 9th grade), I attended a youth rally in Southgate.  Most of it, to be honest, was really lame... local bands, a youth pastor who had never had any form of training.. but one point from one speaker really stuck with me.  He read 

Psalm 34:7, "Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart."

Then he talked about how often this verse is misinterpreted.  So many people read this verse and think "Oh, cool! I'm a Christian now, so now I'm going to get whatever I want!"  When that doesn't happen, they get mad at God, feeling like they've been gipped somehow.  That, obviously, is incorrect.  


We were told to focus on the first part of the verse, "Delight yourself in the Lord." To delight ourselves in the Lord means finding all of our joy and our delight in Him and Him alone.  It means leaning wholeheartedly on Him, and trusting in His plan.  THEN, said the speaker, the desires of our heart will begin to be the same as God's desires for us, and we will realize and attain those desires.


Paraphrasing, this verse would then read:

Delight yourself in the Lord, and His desires will become Your desires, and then He will give you the desires of your heart (which are the desires of His heart for you.)

This brings us to today.  As I read and ate lunch, my mind started wandering.  It started traveling into the land of What If, the country of If Only, and the continent of I Wish.  While I was thinking and praying about a certain situation, I prayed "Oh Lord, that is truly my dream."


Then, in the same breath, a fraction of a second later, a burst of realization "Of course, that doesn't matter, until my dream and Your dream are the same.  Until I am truly delighting myself in You."