Walk It Out (God's Plan, Part 2)

Call me a cheater. I know I already wrote a blog about walking out God’s plan for your life, but I’m doing it again. The last time I wrote about it, I focused on how you can be at peace about your future because God has already planned it out. This time I want to focus more on how to find His plan for your future.

I think God put it best when He said in Psalm 37:4, “Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.” If you follow His advice in this verse, you will find His plan for your life - which is written in the desires of your heart. Let me break it down for you:

We all want to obtain what our heart desires. Obviously. But how do we get them? By delighting ourselves in the Lord. When I first read that Bible verse I was very confused. I wasn’t sure what it meant by ‘delighting in the Lord.’ So I went to biblehub.com and looked up the original Hebrew words for the verse. What I found really surprised me: the Hebrew word for ‘delight’ is the word ‘`anag,’ which means ‘to be soft or pliable.’ So if we want God to give us the desires of our hearts, all we have to do is be soft or pliable! This was great news for me. With my general lack of exercise I am well on my way to being soft and pliable in the physical sense.

Don’t resist God.

He wants to give you the desires of your heart.

All joking aside, what God is telling us here is that we need to submit ourselves to Him. We need to be soft and pliable; something that He can mold and shape. We need to be docile so that when He gives us a command, we obey Him. So many times, God tries to lead us one way but we try to go the other way. We try to write the script for our own lives (often out of fear and lack of trust in God), and we miss out on the perfect script that God has for us. God can’t lead us to His perfect will for our lives if we are hardened and resistant to Him. When we deny ourselves and follow Him, He leads us to a place of peace, joy, and fulfillment.

I tend to be hard-headed and very much the opposite of pliable. I have seen a definite pattern in my life of God giving me something difficult to obey followed by me putting up a fight, eventually obeying, and God leading me much further down the road He laid out for me. My journey never really began until I started obeying Him. But now that I make an effort to obey even the tough orders He has for me, I am finally receiving the desires of my heart. So I encourage you, don’t resist God even when His orders look difficult to follow. He wants to give you the desires of your heart.