“Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart. Commit your way unto the Lord (roll and repose each care of your load on Him); trust (lean on, rely on, and be confident) also in Him and He will bring it to pass.” (Ps 37:4,5; AMPC). In verse 4 we have an “if then” promise; if we do our part (delight ourselves in God) then He will do His part (give us our heart’s desires). I’m sure we all want to receive that promise, so how do we go about delighting ourselves in Him? I believe one of the major ways we do it is by spending time with Him – through reading the word, worship and prayer. The more we do this the more we will want to. Once we spend more time delighting in God and less time focused on all the needs, we want Him to meet, it often happens that our needs get taken care of in the process, without our even asking. David put it like this, “As the hart pants and longs for the water brooks, so I pant and long for You, O God.” (Ps 42:1; AMPC).

In verse 5 of Psalm 37 there are 2 things that we have to do. Firstly, we have to put our future into God’s hands; in other words, we have to stop trying to work out everything for ourselves. Secondly, we have to put our trust in Him. We can put our trust in God because He is good and faithful; He has a good track record and it is found all through the Bible! Nothing is impossible for Him (Luke 1:37, Matt 19:26).