It’s a warm, windy, sunny day in Fayetteville. It’s too nice to be inside all day, so at lunch, I drove to a nearby park and listened to worship music while enjoying the beautiful weather. As I sat there in the park, I saw something I’d never really seen before.

The sky was mostly sunny, but there were a few small clouds passing overhead. As I kept watching one cloud go by, it slowly began to disappear. It reminded me of this verse in the book of James:

You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

Here’s that verse in context:

Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil. Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.

That passage got me thinking…

How often do we pursue our own plans, but convince ourselves they’re really God’s plans?

Does our decision-making simply come down to asking ourselves one question: Is this what I want?

What would happen if we stopped asking God to give us stuff and instead gave ourselves and our stuff to God so we could experience His will?

So how do you get what you want?

You want what God wants. The “secret” is found in Psalm 37:4…

“Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart.” (Psalm 37:4)

If we make the Lord our delight, which we’re created to do anyway, He’ll give us His desires and then fulfill them for us.

Try praying:

Lord, I am Yours and I’m putting aside my own dreams and plans. I want to delight in You and only want what You want. Please help me do that. Amen.