“Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the
desires of your heart.”
The commendably-honest Sarah Frazer acknowledges she once
believed this familiar promise in Psalm 37 meant “I can
have anything I want.” If so, that would be quite a promise, but it
would reduce God to a mere term in a larger equation, where if you treat that term
a consistent way, you can always expect a predictable outcome.
Nice deal if you can get it, but quite a comedown for the
Creator and Sustainer of the Universe to be reduced to a component of your personal math
problem.
Let’s suggest that might not be the verse’s intended meaning!