God wants to give you good things. In fact, he wants you to have the best. If you pray for something and don’t receive what you pray for it may be that God has a better idea than what you had. God wants to give us what we want, but most of all he wants to transform what we want so that we always want what is best. I now appreciate the healthy food my mother gave me when I was young, but I can tell you, I didn’t appreciate it at the time. With maturity, however, I have come to love healthy food because I have acquired a healthier appetite. That is what God wants to do for us. He wants us to have a healthy appetite for what is best, and he wants to give us what is best in abundance. The way to develop an appetite for what is best is simply to pursue and consume it. The more of God’s good gifts you pursue the more you will desire these things and the less satisfying other things will be. The greatest gift of God is the Holy Spirit who brings peace and joy into our hearts. When you gain his peace and joy, then you will be able to rest in contentment and you will be freed from the addictive need for things that satisfy the soul for only a moment. When you receive your peace and joy from God, then you will be free to enjoy other things for what they are because you won’t need them to fill the gap left by the absence of God.
Ask God to fill you afresh with his Spirit. Seek God’s face and knock on the door of his presence.
Read Matthew 7:7-12
