So many times people remember the verse in the Bible that says God is going to give us the desires of our hearts. Lately in my walk with God, He's been asking me to give some things to Him that I really really want. One thing I do not want taken away from me. But I walked into this church and they emphasized giving all of ourselves to God. The pastor said we cannot give God 95% of who we are but tell Him to not touch the other 5%. I always tell God to take all of me, have all of me, but 5% I refuse to hand over. That 5% makes all the difference in my walk with Him.

Sometimes I wonder why we need to surrender things? I mean, I know the reason. We need to show God we want Him more than other things. But truly, obedience is better than sacrifice but even in our obedience, we WILL have to sacrifice things. Fasting for example. One may be walking in obedience with Jesus but he may ask us to fast something we truly love in our lives. Just because I am obedient doesn't mean I won't have to sacrifice anything, it just means truly our obedience and willingness to follow the Lord is greater than anything else.

Like Abraham and Isaac, God asked Abraham to sacrifice His own son and as soon as He was going to do it, an angel appeared and provided another sacrifice. Because Abraham walked in obedience, his sacrifice to the Lord was so small because what God really wanted was to see his obedience. Really, all we have to sacrifice to the Lord is so small. Sometimes God wants to know if we are willing to sacrifice what is most important to us.

Sometimes people wonder why we need to sacrifice important things in our lives when the Bible says God will give us our desires. Well...so many people look at the whole entire verse incorrectly.

Psalm 37:4 "Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart."

We need to delight ourselves in the Lord, let His desires become our desires, and then He will give us the desires of our hearts because our desires SHOULD be His desires.

37:5 "Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun."

Okay so delight in the Lord. Commit my way to the Lord. THEN He will give me the desires of my heart and make my righteousness and justice shine. That is walking in obedience.

Okay so big long tangent. Sorry if you're lost or if it doesn't make sense but this is what God is showing me. I need to be obedient, delight in Him, commit myself in His ways, and wait patiently for Him (verse 7 and 34). In my obedience to Jesus, He will give me His heart, and when He does, His desires will be my own, and then He will give me the desires of His heart because they are His desires too. Ahh!!! A big, long, messy revi! Haha.

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What 5% of your life are you holding back from God? What is an area of your life that you need to truly, 100%, walk in obedience at? Are you willing to show God that all we have to sacrifice is so small compared to all He has to truly offer? I had to surrender something recently, and to me is seems so big and devastating, but to God, the sacrifice is so small, especially when I know and He knows that I am walking in obedience.