Desires

What the wicked dread will overtake them; what the righteous desire will be granted.

Sounds like a plan, doesn’t it?  Those who love the Lord can just desire something and it will be granted – like a genie in a bottle!  We know that doesn’t work.

There’s a verse that says the Lord will give us the desires of our heart and I believe it means He will give us the kind of desires that align with His plans and purposes – and those will be granted.  In other words, as we walk with Him and learn to yearn for what he yearns for, it’s like praying, “Your kingdom come, your will be done…” It happens. 

But what about the first part of this verse?  What a horrible thing to be overtaken by that which is feared…or dreaded.  What do the wicked dread?  I just get this picture of a person running from a dark cloud that always follows them, because it’s getting darker and heavier, thundering, and lighting up with dangerous strikes of lightning…until it breaks and the deluge begins. 

We can live in dread…or desire.  One is a life of running with the darkness behind you about to overtake you, and the other is a life of running with your path lit up before you, towards all that you desire.