Psalm 145:16 You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing. It is God's own word. It is not in the world's vocabulary, much less in the devil's. This, too, is love's word. Love is never satisfied until there is a perfect satisfaction. So, then, here is the salvation of our wishes. Nurse your aspirations, encourage your desires. They cannot be too great since God waits to satisfy them. Wishing is not an idle folly when we bring our wishes to God. Then our desires do become pure prophecies; the whispers of God's love to the soul. Be not afraid of your desires; let the soul be thrilled with the thought of heroism, adventure, nobility, grand deeds grandly done. Take these to God, for He hath need of them, and He knows how to turn these wishes to account. This is the very meaning of our salvation, to turn the idle poetry of our wishes into solid fact that blesses men. It is to inspire the very loftiest longing and to fulfil that which He inspires that Jesus Christ has lived and died and risen in His resurrection power. Do you but give yourself right up to God, and no dream of good is there, no blessed vision of service but shall come to pass. He satisfieth the desire, — the desire of every living thing. (M. G. Pearse.) Parallel Verses KJV: Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.WEB: You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing. |
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