Desire of the Heart

While the main thrust and pattern of posts on this blog are lessons FROM a runaway bride, this one runs against the current because it is a lesson TO a runaway bride. Let's start out by looking at some scripture from the Psalms:

•         Psalm 20: 4, May He grant you your heart's desire And fulfill all your counsel!

•         Psalm 21:2, You have granted him his heart's desire and have not withheld the request of his lips.

•         Psalm 37:4, Delight yourself in the LORD; And He will give you the desires of your heart.

•         Psalm 145:19, He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him; He will also hear their cry and will save them.

That all sounds pretty good, right?  God will give you your heart's desire! You have His words on it!

So, what desire did God give to KatieLyn's heart?

Read the verses carefully. Do you see how that works? God gives you the desire of your heart, that is, the desire of your spirit. God does not promise to put His desire for you into your emotions or your intellect. When your spirit accesses His spirit, that is when you are fulfilled.

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If ever anyone was born to be a wife and homemaker, it was KatieLyn. Her Facebook looked like a cookbook of recipes that she had tried out. Her blog was a scrapbook of homey activities and sewing clothes. Her Pinterest account was a bulletin board of home fashion and… yes, it was her wedding planner years before she ever met Joe. To be a wife and homemaker was the desire God had given to her heart as a little girl. It consumed her childhood play, and as an adult you could pick up on that orientation within five minutes of first speaking with her. She had spent half her life praying for the desire of her heart, and then four days before the wedding she chucked it and ran off on the wee hours of the morning.

She can try to comfort herself now by claiming that she did the right thing. She can try to convince herself that she is content with being single. She can even collect a clowder of cats if she wants to. But eventually, after rejecting God's desire for her life, she will find that she has to keep on running. Running from the Lord won't be as easy as running from a human groom was. She will have to keep running from the Creator of the Universe now, and that gets complicated unless she is willing to either sear her conscience until she feels numb, or repents.