Thy Word have I Hid in Mine Heart

Psalm 119:11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

Since our amazing two week experience, my wife and I cannot read enough of the Bible. We used to fill our free time with worthless things like TV shows, mindless surfing on the internet, or going out to places like the mall or bookstores for no real reason. Now, our main desire is to spend as much time in God's Word as possible and it has truly become living, powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword. We have always believed that God's Word was these things but it was usually based more on faith rather than real experience.

Over those two weeks, we lived God's Word and it all became very living and real to us. Now, we will have a book or chapter of the Bible that will pop into our heads and it will be the exact thing that we were praying about or the exact thing that we needed to hear to give us encouragement about. Often times, I will read something in the morning and will come home after school to hear my wife share something that she read or something that happened to her and it will have to do with the exact passage that I read that morning.

One of the main things that God has been telling us lately is that He will grant us the desires of our hearts if we wait on Him and continue in His ways. That does not mean we can be like the "Name it and Claim it" preachers on TBN. We will get all the desires of our hearts when our hearts are aligned with God's will for our lives. Lately, our hearts have been in line with His will for us because spending so much time in the Word makes it clear what He wants for us. When our desires become His desires, He tells us that we will get everything we want and everything we ask for.

Fortunately for us, when our desires were not His desires, He did not always give us what we asked for. Looking back, our lives would not be as good if He had given everything we had asked for. Looking forward, I cannot wait to see what He has in store for our family as we continue to get closer and closer to Him and the path that He has laid out for us.