What do I ask of the Lord? Well, I ask for courage, direction, peace, health, joy, zeal, stability, deepening commitment. For myself, for my wife, for my children and grandchildren, for my parents and my aunt, for my sister and my niece, for my inlaws, and on and on.

So many things to desire, and yet . . . .

“One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the hosue of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple” (Psalm 27:4).

The panting hart — so thirsty that every other need and desire and wish and want and ambition and goal is secondary.

Water first.

Then the other things.

That’s how I want to be.

I’ve really been struggling with a decision: Should I go on another trip (and be gone from home two weeks again)? I truly believe God could use me to help and encourage some friends. But I don’t know if God wants me to go.

So before reading Psalm 21 this morning, I prayed a little bit. One thing my prayer included was the request for clear-to-me direction. It also included a commitment to do whatever He told me to do.

And what should I read almost right away?

“Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.” (2).

Yes! He will give me an answer. May He also give me sharp eyes to see it.

That reminds me of this:

“The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them” (Proverbs 20:12).