Really Live with Desire In Your Heart

Yes, we will really live when we have desire in our heart. But here’s the catch, we have to desire that which is fulfilling.

“¹²Hope deferred makes the heart sick,

but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.”

“¹⁹A desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul,

but to turn away from evil is an abomination to fools.”

— Proverbs 13:12 & 19 (ESV)

God’s Word tells us that “a desire” is fulfilling to the point of bringing “life” and “sweet”ness. But what is that desire that we should be looking for. Well, it is Him. We are to fill our hearts with God and His Word and we will be blessed beyond belief. We will really be living when the LORD is at the center of all our movement.

How are you able to fall into despair when you are filled with the joy of the LORD? How are we to consciously sin when we are focused on doing the work that the LORD has for us? How can we not live life to the fullest when we are living for the glory of the LORD? The answer to all of these how questions is, we can’t.

I know that there will be moments of challenge in our lives and all will seem impossible to achieve, but that is where our desire to live the life that God has given us to live comes into play. I have to live the life that the LORD gives me and not the life that I want. I have to live according to the desire to be more and more like the LORD at every turn. I have to live from my heart outward and then I will really be living.

What are you leaning on to really live? Are you trying to find fulfillment outside your heart? What if you were to have God in your heart and live outward from Him and His direction?