Psalm 37:4 "Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart."

"Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart" (Psalm 37:4)

Question:

I prayed this scripture and believed and I did not get the desire of my heart. The man I loved and was believing loved me married someone else and moved out of the country. I have not had a break in my career that was the desire of my heart. I even told God I wanted to have the life (him and I talked about) more than my career and I was willing to give that up. I was angry at first when he told me he was in a relationship with someone else and then before I knew it he was married and moving. I found out the last part through the internet and other people. When I called him he never responded, after me spending years waiting for God to work out our challenges. I got nothing and he got a new wife and a whole new life in a new country. I can't even read this scripture anymore. The only thing I got was a psychiatrist and a prescription for antidepressants. I believed, I prayed, I gave, I went to church. Can you answer this?

Comment:

 It can be very difficult for us, from our limited human perspective, to tell the difference between the “desires of our heart” and the desires of our minds and/or our senses. It is very easy for the Christ Presence within us to know the difference.   God's answer to the desires of our heart is always “Yes!” Always. But God knows—as our ego minds do not—that what seems to be an expression of our heart's desire is actually not. So God responds to the heart desire, not to the how we've decided that desire looks—or who we've decided it is. Your heart's desire is for a loving relationship and a loving life. God's answer is 'Yes.' You decided that one particular man was the perfect outpicturing of that heart's desire. God knew that he was not. So from your human perspective it seems that your heart's desire was denied you. In spiritual truth, you have just been spared the often painful process of learning that we are not necessarily the best judges of what or who our heart's desire is, and how it will look when it appears.   Please not that the three words that begin Psalm 37—and that are repeated throughout—are "Do not fret." And the verse immediately following the one you asked about reads "Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act." Your heart's desire is moving to you now through time and space, quickly, clearly and peacefully.   Blessings!

Rev. Ed