No matter how much I want it …
Enjoy this brief inspirational Daily Lift:
The Christian Science Daily Lift is produced Monday-Friday by The First Church of Christ, Scientist.
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Thanks Mark,
It’s always a good reminder to pray for God’s will instead of trying to just get what we want.
I do like what you say, but……I can’t say I have really seen this happening. Isn’t it much more like we want something, it doesn’t happen and then we just have to make do with what we get? Judging from my experience again and again, I would rather say, it’s never going my way anyway, so why ask God to ignore my heart’s desires? And if you have such longing, how can you truly stop wishing for it?I find this very painful and would appreciate all good ideas.
Thank you for your comment Nicole. Yielding to God’s will is not always easy, I get it. We may think that what we want in our heart is the very best thing for us. If that is true we will have it, but what I have found is that unless God has put that desire in my heart, it is not near as good for me as what God, divine Love has for me. God knows what is best for us and is supplying it. What I have found is that by yielding to Love’s will for me things have always worked out the very best, and when you experience this a few times you learn to trust it and are more willing to put your own desires aside. I have also found that by just cherishing my desires they will either fade away or grow stronger. If they grow stronger, that is a sign to me that it is a desire from God and will be fulfilled.
Mary Baker Eddy has this to say in the Christian Science textbook,
“Desire is prayer; and no loss can occur from trusting God with our desires, that they may be moulded and exalted before they take form in words and in deeds.”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 1:11)