A Recipe - The Way to Get What You Desire

Now that it is nearing Valentines Day, the advertisements for chocolate candies are everywhere. Chocolate candy is one of my favorites and there’s nothing better to me than homemade chocolate candy. To satisfy the desires of a chocoholic, the cook must have the proper recipe.

So what is the recipe for getting what our heart desires out of life? In Psalm 37:1-8, we are given a recipe as to what to do to get the desires of our heart. There are about ten ingredients:
Don’t fret
Don’t envy
Refrain from anger
Turn from wrath
Trust in the Lord
Do good
Delight in the LORD
Commit your way to the LORD
Be still before the LORD
Wait patiently for him


Will following this recipe allow me to have anything my heart desires – to change God’s will?

Or will this recipe, when followed in submission to God, change my heart to desire the things that are in conformance with God’s will?

Note that the first four ingredients involve things I must not do and the last six are things I must do.

The last two ingredients, be still and wait patiently, remind me of how difficult it is to wait for the chocolate fudge to cool and harden. If I don’t, I end up with a mess trying to eat it early.

Isn’t that the problem when we try to shortcut the recipe for life?