Okay, Psalm 27. I've entitled
the message this evening, The Desire of My Heart. I don't know if I would say this
psalm is necessarily my favorite psalm. I think I might have a
favorite. But without a doubt, this is a psalm I read most frequently. I've read it, I'm sure, more
than any other psalm. Because no matter the situation
I find myself in, this psalm comforts my heart and encourages
me. And I could preach from the whole
psalm, we'd be here till tomorrow morning, but I just want to look
at verse four this evening. One thing have I desired of the
Lord, that will I seek after, that I may dwell in the house
of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of
the Lord and to inquire in his temple. Now we don't know when
this psalm was written, but we're pretty confident. David wrote
this psalm in a time of trouble and trial. If you look at verse
two, he talks about the wicked, my enemies and my foes come upon
me and eat up my flesh. In verse three, he says, an host
is going to encamp against me. He says in verse five, from the
time of trouble, he shall hide me in his pavilion. He says in
verse seven, Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy
also upon me and answer me. In verse nine, he says, hide
not thy face far from me, but not thy servant away in anger.
Thou hast been my help. Leave me not, neither forsake
me, O God of my salvation. When my father and my mother
forsake me, then the Lord will take me up. Teach me thy way,
O Lord, and lead me in a plain path because of mine enemies.
Deliver me not over to the will of mine enemies, for false witnesses
are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
I'd fainted, I just would have quit, unless I believed to see
the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. So David
tells himself and he tells us, now wait on the Lord. Be of good
courage, he shall strengthen thine heart. Wait, I say, on
the Lord. Now that sounds like a man who's
well acquainted with trouble and trial. He's in it deep. And
in the midst of this trouble, in the midst of this heartache,
whatever it may be, in the midst of David worrying about his enemies
overcoming him, he says, brethren, I'm still confident. Now the
situation doesn't look too good. It looks kind of scary. I'm worried,
but now I'm confident. I'm confident because he says
in verse one, the Lord is my light and my salvation. So who
am I going to fear? The Lord is the strength of my
life. Of whom shall I be afraid? You're the only thing we can
be confident in. I guess it's two things. All
of us are lost in sin. And second, we can be confident
of this. Salvation is of the Lord. We're lost in sin. The
only hope of salvation is Christ. And no matter what my circumstances
might be, no matter how full of doubt and fear I may be, I
can be confident if Christ is my salvation. My enemies, they
may get a hold of me. They may put a hurting on me.
They may even kill this flesh. They could. But my salvation
is secure no matter what my enemies do to this body. My salvation
is secure if Christ is my salvation. I can be confident. If the Lord
Jesus Christ took my sin and his body on a tree and put it
away under his blood, I can be confident. I can be confident
and secure knowing that Christ both died and rose again for
me. And in this time of trouble and trial, David tells us, here's
my confidence, is Christ is my salvation. And then in this time
of trouble and trial, David tells us what his desire is. Now, it's
not only to be delivered from this particular trial. I'm sure
that's part of what he's thinking, but that's not what he says is
the one thing he desires, is it? David's looking past this
life. He's looking to something a whole
lot more important. He's looking to eternal life.
And the desire of David's heart is the desire of every believer's
heart. Every believer has been given the same heart. We've been
given the heart of Christ, the nature of Christ. So the desire
of every believer's heart, David, any of you here this evening
who believe on Christ, your heart's desire is Christ. To be with Him, to know Him,
to have communion with Him. That's your heart's desire. If
you know Christ. Now, That's not the desire of
this natural heart. That's the desire of a new heart.
That is not the desire of the heart that we're born with, Adam's
nature. If you look at Genesis chapter
three, I'll show you that. I'll tell you what the natural
heart desires. The natural heart desires to
be our own God. Natural heart desires to take
God off the throne, to remove his sovereignty so we don't have
to answer to him. That's the heart, the natural
heart's desire. Genesis three, verse five. Satan
speaking to Eve, he said, for God doth know that the day ye
eat thereof, then your eyes should be open and you should be his
gods. Knowing good and evil, you'll
be your own god. And when the woman saw that the
tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes,
that it was a tree to be desired, to make one wise. She took her
the fruit and did eat. She gave also unto her husband
with her, and he did eat. They ate because they desired
to be wise. They desired to be their own
God. Now look in Luke chapter 23. Between Genesis 3 and Luke
23, this is the reason Israel desired a king when Samuel was
the prophet, remember? Samuel was so upset, and God
told Samuel, don't worry, they've not rejected you, they've rejected
me. Israel desired a king, they wanted a man to be their king
instead of God to be their king, because they knew they can't
control God. If they put a man on the throne,
they might control him, they want to be their own God. And
in Luke 23, here's the preeminent example of the desire of the
natural heart. Verse 24. And Pilate gave sentence
that it should be as they required, and he released unto them Him
that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they
had desired, but he delivered Jesus over to their will. The
desire of the natural heart is give us Barabbas. We'd rather
have Barabbas as our next door neighbor, the fellow who's guilty
of sedition and murder, than have Jesus to reign over us.
That's the desire of the natural heart. Second, the desire of
our natural heart is to have everything that doesn't belong
to us. You know what we want more than
anything? It's what we can't have. Is that true? That's what
we want. That's this heart. God had to
make it a law because we're so selfish and we're so self-centered.
He had to make it a law. Don't you desire your neighbor's
wife and your neighbor's goods? Don't you desire those things?
Because that's our nature. That's what our heart desires.
And the reason I point all that out is this. I want us to know
that salvation is not a reformation. Salvation is not fixing up the
old man. Salvation is the birth of a new
man, a new spiritual man. Salvation is God giving us a
new heart. That's salvation. And David tells
us what that heart desires. It's a singular desire. First, this new heart that God
gives earnestly desires Christ. Psalm 27, verse four. And you
notice that word thing is in italics. This is how singular
David's desire is. Not one thing have I desired,
one have I desired of the Lord. That word desire means to beg.
David's the king of Israel. And David said, I'm a beggar.
The beggar just happened to be a king, didn't he? David said,
I begged God for this one thing. Now we don't want to beg, do
we? Oh, we're too proud for that. But I tell you, if we really
need something that we don't have, we'll beg. We sure will. And the one thing David desires,
the one thing, the one he's begging God for is Christ. Christ is the one that the new
heart desires. Because we can't live without
Christ. That new heart Begs for Him. That new heart desires to be
with Him. That new heart needs to hear
from Him. It needs to learn of Him. I'll
beg for Him. Because I need Him. I can't live
without Him. I desire Christ. And I beg God
for Him. Because I tell you what, God
don't have to save me. Now you think what it takes for
God to save a sinner. It takes God to kill His only
Son. God doesn't have to save me by killing his son. He don't
have to do that. God doesn't owe us anything but
wrath. That's why we beg for mercy.
We beg for what we don't deserve. You know, if I was trying to
get what I deserve, I'd demand it. No, we're not demanding mercy. We're begging for mercy. If God
damns me, his glory is not going to be tarnished in any way. I
will, I'll suffer loss, but God won't. God's going to be glorified
either way, whether he saves me or damns me, God's going to
be glorified. If God damns me, his justice
is going to be glorified. He gave me exactly what I deserve
for my sin. And if God saves me, not only
is God's mercy going to be glorified, God's justice will be glorified
too because Christ suffered and he satisfied God's justice as
my substitute. That's what enabled God to be
merciful to me. And I tell you, I'd a whole lot
rather be that object that glorifies God's mercy than His justice
only. So I begged God for mercy continually. I begged God that I would have
Christ, that I'd be found in Him. The one I desire is Christ. The one I desire for me is Christ. And the one I desire for you
is Christ. Secondly, this new heart constantly
desires Christ. David says, one have I desired
of the Lord, that will I seek after. That phrase, seek after,
it means what you think. It means to strive after. But
it means to strive after in a specific way. It means to search out in
prayer. I'll tell you, this is just true
of people. A person will pursue whatever
their heart really desires. You know, I go to Mexico once
a year. And while I'm there, I think, man, I wish I knew Spanish. You know, when I go home, you
know what I'm going to do? I'm going to get that Rosetta Stone. I'm going
to study that. So that when I come back, I'll
at least know some words. Well, guess what? I still don't
have Rosetta Stone. So it must be that my heart just
really, truly desire that. Because whatever it is you truly
desire, you'll strive for it. Now you will. I remember being
a kid, I was on the 7th grade basketball team. We had to make, at the end of
practice, 5 out of 10 free throws or you had to run. Adam, I could
make 5 out of 10 free throws, it saved my life. I ran every
day. And finally, I got tired of running,
so you know what I did? I went out and I shot 500 free
throws a day. Because whatever your heart desired,
you'll strive for it. I mean, I wouldn't eat before
I'd shoot these free throws, because my heart desired it.
Whatever you desire, you'll strive for it. Look at Luke chapter
18, and you'll do it continually. People say, well, I'd like to
hear from God. I'd like to worship Him. I need to worship. I need
to hear from Him. And then they never show up.
This is worship service. Well, I know why. It's because
they don't desire it. But when somebody starts showing
up every service, and they just won't miss, I know why. They're
striving for Christ. They need Him. And they won't
quit. It's a constant desire. Luke 18, verse 1. He spake a
parable unto them to this end. The men ought always to pray
and not faint, not quit. Saying there was in a city a
judge which feared not God, neither regarded man. And there was a
widow in that city, and she came unto him saying, avenge me of
mine adversary. And he would not for a while.
But afterward he said within himself, though I fear not God,
nor regard man, yet because this widow troubleth me, she won't
shut up. I'll avenge her, lest by her
continual coming she weary me. And the Lord said, now you hear
what the unjust judge saith. And shall not God avenge his
own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear
long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of
Man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? When Christ comes,
will he find that faith that constantly desires and strives
after him? Well, he will in his people.
If you're here this evening and you don't know the Lord, I have
some advice for you. Call on Him. Call on the Lord.
Beg Him to save you. Beg Him to reveal Himself. Beg
Him to have mercy on you. Just keep crying. Be like this
widow woman. Don't quit. Just keep crying. Don't cry several times and say,
well, that's it. He's not going to hear me. No,
don't quit. Don't cry many times and then
quit. You keep crying till God answers. We just read it from
God's word. What did our Lord say? God said
he'd hear. Then you keep crying. And I know
who will keep crying. Those that receive this new heart.
The constant desire of this heart is Christ. Third, this new heart
that God gives desires a new father. David says that I may
dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. Now
this word house that David uses, it means more than a structure.
It means family. That's what it has to do with.
In 2 Corinthians 5 verse 8, Paul said, we're willing to be absent
from the body and be present with the Lord. That word present
means home. I desire to be home with the
Lord. Whenever I'm away, traveling
somewhere, I always desire to be home. I mean, it just, it
feels good to be home. That's what the believer desires,
to be home. And in my case, when I'm out
traveling somewhere, I desire to be home. You know what I really
want? I want to be where Janet is. Just where she is, that's
home. That's what makes it comfortable
for me. The believer desires not just
to be in heaven, but to be with the Lord, to be with Him. David
doesn't want to just be a visitor who just comes and spends the
night every so often. He wants to live in the Lord's
house. He wants to live in Christ as
a son. David doesn't want to just live
in the house as a servant. You know, David had servants
that lived in his house, but David doesn't want to be a servant
that lives in the house. He wants to be a home born son. Every believer, you're a servant
of God. You serve him, we serve at his
pleasure, don't we? But God's servants, God's children,
they're more than servants. They're sons and daughters who
are serving out of love. Not because you have to, but
out of love and thanksgiving. We're born into the family of
God in the new birth. So we are home-born sons and
daughters and we serve our father out of love. We've been born
from the seed of the word of God. We've been born of the spirit
of God who comes and gives life. We've been made partakers of
the divine nature. We've been made partakers of
the nature of our Heavenly Father. I have the nature of Frank Tate. He gave it to me. I was born
from his seed. When I was born again, I received
the nature of my Heavenly Father, born from his seed. And by that
new birth, we cry, Abba, Father. Sometimes when you pray, does
it dawn on you amazing statement that we pray to our Father. We're calling God our Father. That's a pretty big statement,
isn't it? That's what, what else would
the children call him? You've been born into his family and
you serve him out of love, not duty, but love. And I'll tell
you why David and every believer, I can tell you exactly why we
want a new father so badly. It's because our first father,
Adam, was such a bad one. Adam was such a bad father. We don't want him anymore. We
don't want to bear his name anymore. We don't want to be disconnected
from him. Our first father, Adam, you think
what he did to his family. He condemned his entire race
to sin. We sin because we received Adam's
sin nature. Our first father, Adam, this
is what he did. He's got his family there, this
is what he did to them. He condemned his entire race to the condemnation
of the law. When Adam sinned, we became guilty. We sinned in him and came under
the condemnation of the law. The law is after us because of
what our father did to us. He's not a good father. Our first
father, Adam, condemned his entire race to a life of shame. After Adam ate that fruit that
God commanded him not to eat, Adam and Eve became ashamed.
They're ashamed because they've been, they were naked. Now they
are more ashamed than just because they didn't have any clothes
on. They were ashamed because now they're naked of innocence.
Now they're naked of righteousness before God. And they're so ashamed.
They got them some fig leaves and sewed them together and tried
to cover their nakedness. You know, it didn't work. Did it? You know how I know it
didn't work. When God came walking in the garden in the cool of
the day, they're hidden in bushes. They're still wearing their fig
leaves, but they're hiding in the bushes because they're still
ashamed. Didn't matter if they had those
fig leaves on or not, because they're ashamed because their
loss of innocence. And no matter what they did,
they couldn't cover up that shame. And you and I receive that same
nature. Those efforts, we still do things to try to hide our
shame, don't we? physical fig leaves, but it's trying to keep
the law, it's trying to act better, you know, than our neighbor back...
And you know all that is? Those are efforts to hide our
shame. And that's what's called self-righteousness. It's trying to cover our shame
by something we do, our own selves. And it's not going to work any
better than Adam and Eve's fig leaves. We cannot cover our shame. Our first father, Adam, condemned
us to shame. Everywhere we go, we're shamed.
Our first father Adam condemned all of his family, all of his
race to a life of death. That sounds strange, a life of
death, doesn't it? But that's exactly what this
is. The physical life we live is a spiritually dead life. And yeah, it's physical life,
but what's it doing? It's dying. And pretty soon it's
going to decay, go back to the dust from whence it was made.
It's a life that's dying. Our first father, Adam, did what
a father's supposed to do, try to give us a house to live in,
except he gave us a dunghill. That's where we live in Adam.
It's a garbage heap. That's the house Adam provided
for us. In short, our first father, Adam, has made his family worthless. He gave us a bad family name. Whenever I worked at the chain
of convenience stores I worked in. We were going to hire somebody.
I always try to find out something about their family. There are
some families you don't want any of them in your business,
you know, having access to your money. Our father Adam gave us
a bad family name. Adam's children don't want to
bear his name. We're ashamed to tell anybody
who we are and what we are because we're part of Adam's family.
Everybody knows what that means. We're sinners. We're condemned
to eternal death. We're condemned to condemnation.
We're condemned to shame. We're condemned to die. Well,
it's no wonder David says, I'll tell you what my heart desires.
I desire a new father. I desire a new family. I desire
a new dwelling place. And you know, by God's grace,
God's elect have one. We've got a new father, the Lord
Jesus Christ, the second Adam. Christ, our father has made his
family righteous. by taking their sin away, putting
it away under the blood of his sacrifice. Christ, our father
has made his people not innocent or made them not guilty. He's
made them innocent. So they don't have to fear condemnation
anymore. Christ, our new father, he's
taken away the shame of his people by bearing our shame for us.
He suffered naked before his father. So now his people, they're
not naked and ashamed. They're clothed. They're clothed
in the righteousness of Christ. They're clothed in those white
garments that John saw in Revelation. They're as righteous as Christ
himself. There's no shame in him. Christ,
our new father, gives his children life. I mean, real life, spiritual
life that can never be lost. Christ, our new father, gives
his children a dwelling place, a dwelling place that's in him,
a place that's of eternal safety and security and warmth and provision
in him. Christ, our new father, has taken
away that worthless name of our first father, Adam, and he's
given us his name. He's given all of his children
the blessed privilege of bearing his name. This is the name wherewith
she shall be called Jehovah Sidkenu, the Lord, our righteousness,
and bearing that name, We can go straight into the presence
of the almighty with boldness because we're coming not in our
name, not in Adam's name, but in the name of God's son. Now
we come humbly, don't we? But we come in boldness because
we know the father's going to accept us if we bear the name
of his son. He's going to accept his son.
He'll accept anyone in his son. Now I want to dwell in that family. I want to dwell under the leadership
of that father, that house for all of eternity. David says,
I want to dwell there all the days of my life in eternity. But I tell you, I want to dwell
there right now here too. I sure do. I want to dwell in
Christ. I want to live in Christ. I want
to live for Christ. When David talks about the house
of the Lord, the house of God, he primarily means the family.
But he also means the house of worship. To David, that was the
temple. That was the house of the Lord,
wasn't it? To us, it's this building here on Hurricane Road. It's
what we call the house of the Lord. Well, the house of God,
I'll tell you why I want to live there. Because that's where God
dwells. In the tabernacle, in the temple,
God dwelt above the mercy seat in his glory. Here in this place,
he dwells here in his glory when the gospel is preached. The house
of God is the place where God said, I'll meet with men in mercy
there because the mercy seat was there in the tabernacle.
Here, God meets with men in mercy through the preaching of the
gospel, through the preaching of Christ. The house of God is
the place where God's worship through blood sacrifice. In David's
day, that happened in the tabernacle, the temple, didn't it? And all
those typical animal sacrifices. Here, God's worship through blood
sacrifice, through the preaching of Christ, our sacrifice. The
house of God is the place where I'm reminded again that the sacrifice
of Christ has taken away my sin, made me accepted in God's sight.
In David's time, that happened once a year on the day of atonement,
didn't it? Here, when has that happened?
When are you reminded that the sacrifice of Christ has taken
away your sin? When Christ is preached. And
I want us to dwell there. I mean dwell there, to focus
on to focus on worship, to live there in Christ richly. I desire
a new family, a new place to live. And fourth, this new heart
that God gives desires to worship the Lord. David says, one, have
I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after, that I may dwell
in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold
the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. That's
the word behold. It means to contemplate with
pleasure. It doesn't just mean see, it
means to see and have pleasure in what you see. And this word
inquire, it means what you think, to ask after, to seek after,
to seek out, but it also means to inspect and to admire. Now that's the essence of worship,
to look at the Lord Jesus Christ, to find the text that God's given
us and look at it and see Christ. to see Him and to think about
Him with pleasure, to inspect everything God the Holy Spirit
has been pleased to reveal to us. Now, everything that God
is and that God does, that's all not been revealed to us,
has it? But the Spirit's been pleased to reveal some things
to us of Christ from His Word. And what we do, we gather together
here on Sundays and Wednesdays is to inspect those things that
the Spirit has revealed to us and admire Christ, to have pleasure
in Him. I just know that's what Mary
was doing. She sat at the feet of our Lord. Remember there in
Luke 10 when Martha was cumbered about with much serving and Mary
was sitting there? What did the Lord say? Martha,
Mary has chosen the one thing that's needful. I can just see
her sitting at the feet of the Savior. and admiring him with
pleasure, can't you? And that's what we do here. I
love to behold the beauty of Christ. He's altogether lovely. I admire the beauty of the holiness
of Christ because he's my holiness. I admire, I find pleasure in
Christ's love for sinners. The only way God could love me
is if he loved sinners in his son. I find pleasure, I admire
the mercy of Christ because the only way God could be merciful
to somebody like me is in His Son. I admire the power of the
blood of Christ to cleanse us from all sin. I find such pleasure
in being washed in the blood of Christ, washed clean of everything
that I am, washed. I admire and find pleasure in
the faithfulness of Christ our Savior. I just don't find much
pleasure in my faithfulness. It ain't much. But I love the
faithfulness of Christ. He's faithful that promised.
I find pleasure in, I admire in the power of Christ to give
life to a dead sinner. The only way I'm ever going to
live is in Christ. And I find pleasure in what my
Savior is doing at this moment. Right at this moment, He's sitting
on the throne of glory. interceding for His people. There's
enough sin in this message to send me to hell a million times
over, but Christ is interceding for me. He's preparing a place
for His people and preparing His people for the place where
we can be with Him forever. I find such pleasure in that.
Now the desire of my heart, the desire of you who believe, is
Christ. He's your desire. You desire
everything about Haggai called Christ the desire of nations. He is the desire of all his people
from every nation, from every generation. We can say with the
Apostle Paul, I desire to win Christ. I desire to be found
in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, because
it's useless, but I desire that righteousness, which is through
the faith of Christ. Christ is the desire of my heart. I want to give you a few more
things that I desire. This is the desire of every believing
heart, the desire of every new heart, and they're all related
to Christ, who is our chief desire. Every believer desires to feed
on Christ. We need to feed on Him. Well, how do we do that? By hearing
Him preached, by reading His Word, by hearing Him preached.
That's why Peter said, as newborn babes, you desire the sincere
milk of the word. You desire to feed on Christ
that you may grow thereby. And Acts 8, that eunuch was there
reading that scroll that he bought. He wasn't feeding on it, was
he? He couldn't understand. And Philip came by. So you understand
what you're reading? He said, how can I? Some man
showed me. You know what this means? Can
you come up here and sit with me and tell me what this means?
And Philip preached to him. He preached Christ to him. He
was given life. He confessed that life and believed
it was baptism, didn't he? Because he fed. He had that sincere
milk of the word. As a preacher, I'll tell you
what I desire. I desire to see sinners saved. My heart's desire for you is
that you know Christ. I pray for that every day. Paul
said in Romans 10 verse 1, my heart's desire and prayer to
God for Israel is. That nation that has rejected
me, that beat me, that wants to put me to death, tell you
what my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is. That they
might be saved. That God might have mercy on
them. And I'd like to see God save more people. But I preach
and I never, ever feel like we're a failure. Because I preach with
this confidence. All of God's elect are going
to be saved. Now they are. God's going to give them faith
to believe. He's going to feed them through preaching. So we're
going to keep preaching Christ, aren't we? Now there are a lot of things
we would say we desire, a lot of things we need, you know,
in this world. It's fine. We got to have food. You got
to have clothes. You got to have a place to live.
But I'll tell you what the believer's desire is. It's not this world. It's Christ and His kingdom.
Hebrews 11 verse 16, the writer there talking about all those
who died in faith. He said, now they desire a better country. That is a heavenly. Is that your
heart's desire? A heavenly country. And every
believer desires this. I desire not to have to live
in this flesh any longer than I have to. I really do. We desire
to be like Christ. It is my heart's desire to one
day be made like Him. I cannot imagine the joy of being
made like Christ, to not be naked like Adam anymore, but to be
clothed with Christ. Paul said in 2 Corinthians 5
verse 2, for in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed
upon but that house which is from heaven, that's the house
I desire to be in, our house which is from heaven. But you
know what? We got a job to do. Every one
of you here in this room, I'm not the only servant of the Lord
in this room, everybody is a servant of the Lord. We've all got a
service to perform. Now we might like to depart and
be with the Lord, but I tell you what, we're gonna stay here
till that job's done, till the Lord's purpose has been fulfilled
in us. That's what the Apostle Paul
said in Philippians 1 verse 23. I have a desire to depart and
be with Christ, which is far better. Well, of course you do.
But Paul said, it's more needful for you that I stay. I've got
a job to do. You do too. Do it with everything
you've got. Serve God with everything you've
got. Do what he's given you to do.
Now, it might seem like that's a lot of different desires, doesn't
it? But really, it's all one. It's all one. It's all related
to Christ. It's all Him. And we have a heart's
desire. The believer has a desire of
your heart. You know when it'll be satisfied?
You know when you'll have exactly what you've desired? When you
awaken Christ's likeness. David said, then I'm gonna be
satisfied. Look over a few pages of Psalm 37. What are we supposed
to do till then? Until that time that I'm satisfied,
I'm given my heart's desire, I'm made like Christ, I'm with
Him, I'm worshiping Him face to face. What are we supposed
to do till then? Psalm 37 verse 3. You trust in the Lord and
do good. So shalt thou dwell in the land
and verily thou shalt be fed. Delight thyself also in the Lord,
make the Lord your delight, and he shall give thee the desires
of thine heart. Commit your way unto the Lord,
trust also in him, he shall bring it to pass. He shall bring forth
thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
Now rest in the Lord, wait patiently for him, fret not thyself because
of him who prospereth in his way. because of the man that
bringeth wicked devices to pass." Don't worry about those things.
You rest in the Lord. You keep desiring Christ. You
keep seeking after Him. You keep calling after Him. He'll
give you the desire of your heart. Let's bow in prayer. Our Father, we thank You for
Your Word. We thank You for the encouraging Word of the Gospel
would encourage our heart to seek the Lord, to look for Him,
to find our pleasure in Him, to be enabled by Your grace to,
for a few moments, sit and admire Him who's worthy of all of our
admiration, our love, and our praise. Father, I pray that You
would give this heart to Your people, that You'd give one here
this evening as of yet hasn't known you, that you'd give this
new heart, a heart that desires the one thing, the Lord Jesus
Christ. Make him be everything to us,
for he is all and all worthy of all of our praise and all
of our worship. To him we seek, we beg mercy
for his sake. It's the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, for his glory and the good of his people we pray.