God Desires Men’s Heart! He Desires Your Heart, Does He Have Your Heart? Why? Or Why Not? It Comes Down To Your Heart's Affections? Who or What Do You Love? Ponder That . . . !
A Devotional for Tuesday September 22, 2026
From the pen of John Bunyan author of The Pilgrim's Progress
God Desires Men’s Heart
“Of David. To you, O LORD, I will lift up my soul”
Psalm 25: 1.
God’s desire is to the work of his hands and the righteous are for surrendering that up to him.
1. In giving up the heart unto him; “My son,” says God, “give me thy heart” (Proverbs 23: 26). “I lift my soul to thee,” says the righteous man (Psalm 25: 1). There is an agreement between God and the righteous. God desires it, the righteous man desires it. Yea, he desires it with a groan saying, “Incline my heart unto thy testimony” (Psalm 119: 36).
2. They are also agreed about the disposing of the whole man: God is for body, and soul, and spirit; and the righteous desires that God should have it all. Hence, they are said to give themselves to the Lord (2 Corinthians 8: 5) and to addict themselves to his service (1 Corinthians 15: 16).
3. God desires truth in the inward parts, that is, that truth may be at the bottom of all (Psalm 51: 6 & 16) and this is the desire of the righteous man likewise: “Thy word have I hid in my heart,” said David, “that I might not sin against thee” (Psalm 119: 11).
4. They agree in the way of justification, in the way of sanctification, in the way of preservation, and in the way of glorification. Wherefore, who should hinder the righteous man or keep him back from enjoying the desire of his heart?
5. They also agree about the sanctifying of God’s name in the world, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” There is a great agreement between God and the righteous; “[H]e that is joined to the Lord is one spirit” (1 Corinthians 6: 17). No marvel, then, if their desires in the general, so far as the righteous man doth know the mind of his God.
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