I want to be content and satisfied with that which God does for me and gives to me and allows me to experience.

Yet I want more.

And some things I really do not want, and yet I have times in which I desire them strongly anyway.

Maybe that’s why these verses spoke to me:

“They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel: But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert” (Psalm 106:13,14).

Deliver me from desire for those things and experiences which God has withheld from me!

Let me remember what He has done.

Let me remember what He has promised to do.

And let me wait patiently for Him to do now whatever it is He wishes to do.

Turn my heart to Him, that I may desire Him, that I may bless Him.

God does so many good things for me. (Alas, I don’t acknowledge most of them.)

Why?

He has many reasons, I’m sure. I just got done reading one of them:

“That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.” (Psalm 105:45).

His blessings on me should lead me to obedience — grateful obedience, willing obedience, joyful obedience.

Is He bribing me?

Not at all!

He blesses me because He loves me. He blesses me because He loves to do good things for me.

And He knows that my heart will bend toward Him when I experience and acknowledge His goodness to me.

May I remember today to look for His blessings to me.

And may I remember to live according to His ways.