Choosy Beggars..

Okay, I am in the throes of another bout with my obsessive behavior. I have been reading and watching everything I can find on the movie The Gospel. It all started with the Yolanda Adams song, Victory, and it's been downhill ever since. I'm caught up and won't be through with it until I see the movie.

I went to Wal-Mart hoping to find the soundtrack so that I could at least curb my appetite but no luck there. It was no where to be found. I did get the new YA CD so I'm kind of all right but I can already tell it won't last long. I can just tell.

Anyway, I was watching the gospel concert after the movie premiere on BET and I heard this song that started me on this tangent that I'm about to share with you, unfortunately.

The song said that if you just trust in Him (God) that He will give you everything you need everything you ever wanted.

Okay, here's where I go too far so you can stop reading if you want...

Of course she was referring to Psalms 37:4 where it reads ‘Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.’

The thing is that I think, and have been taught by my teacher (so it's not just me flying off the handle) and accepted that this passage is speaking to believers that are in fellowship with the Holy Spirit. If you are in fellowship then the desires of your heart are the things that God has for you. So, you will receive and desire only what God wants you to have. Therefore, when we share this message with people it is important that they understand what it is really speaking to.

For example, right now I want to get married and have four rowdy little boys so that I can smile at my husband as our boys bring terror to the land (just jokes on that last part but for some strange reason I do like rambunctious little boys). Anyway, if I can get myself together and delight myself in the Lord and stay in fellowship with Him (let God lead my thinking) then whatever He has planned for me (missionary work, community service leader, mayor, single woman, head of the usher board, married with kids even) will be exactly what I want to do and therefore He has given me the desires of my heart, a heart in His likeness... His desire. See?

A lot of people get confused with this passasge because they think 'hey I go to church on Sundays AND go to bible study during the week AND do right outside of church AND pay my tithes AND all kinds of other stuff and I am still single or poor or whatever. Well, you're 'that' because it is God's will (or you're not ready yet or you said no to the man/job He has for you). Whatever it is, it's not time yet so just accept it. Anyway, if it's a chore to do all of those things then you are clearly not delighting yourself in Him.

I know I go too far sometimes so I'll stop, for right now.

peace y'all