Walk of Life – Day 11, January 2021 – Thoughts From The Book of Proverbs
NEW BEGINNINGS – NEW DESIRE
The desire of the righteous is only good, But the expectation of the wicked is wrath. – Proverbs 11:23
Desire – a word which is present in every human being’s heart till the last moment of life on earth. It varies for every person and relates to an extent with the age and gender. Let’s just analyze the life of a focused individual. As a school going student, he desires to join a particular course in college and prepares accordingly to it. While at college the desire changes focusing on the nature of job. The moment he receives his first salary many new desires creeps in. Desire to make parents and siblings happy, desire to give a good look to himself and also to the home, desire to have a family for his own and desire to reach the high positions, desire to see the goodness of children, desire to see them getting married, desire to see grandchildren and this desire never ends.
Isaac, lived up well all throughout his life and was indeed successful. We read that he reaped 100 %. At his last age he had a desire as we read in Genesis 27 :2-4
“Isaac said, “Since I am so old, I could die at any time.
Therefore, take your weapons—your quiver and your bow—and go out into the open fields and hunt down some wild game for me.
Then prepare for me some tasty food, the kind I love, and bring it to me. Then I will eat it so that I may bless you before I die.”
He desired to eat good and tasty food as he likes and wanted to bless his favorite son.
Likewise, every character in the Bible had desires. Samson, desired not to die in the hand of the Philistines. Moses, desires to see the face of God. David desired to dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
What is our desire today? As we have stepped into this year 2021 what do we want to get accomplished? Is it an increment in our salary or a higher designation or seeing the goodness of our children? These are all worldly desires which gets fulfilled for every man or woman immaterial of whether they know the Lord or they don’t know the Lord. As children of God how should our desires be?
To Remember the Lord: –
Isaiah 26: 8 says “The desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.”
To Acknowledge the Lord: –
The psalmist acknowledges in Psalm73:25 “Whom have I in heaven but thee? And there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.”
To seek the Lord: –
“O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: My soul thirsteth for thee, my soul longeth for thee” – Psalm 63:1
Can we as the redeemed children of God renew our desires like these old testament saints to remember, to Acknowledge and to seek our Lord continually throughout our life?
What does our Lord desire?
Our Lord desires us to be holy as He is holy. He desires to bless us, but above all as He utters to the prophet Hosea in chapter 6 and verse 6 “For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.” In which it goes very clearly without any need for further explanation that we should be more merciful and must grow in the knowledge of God.
New Resolution: May we desire to remember, to Acknowledge and to seek the Lord and also fulfil the desire of our Lord by being merciful and to know Him more.
