I Want! I Want! I Want!

I want a new car. I want an iPhone. I want a motorcycle. I want a new pistol and rifle. I want some new clothes. I want more sleep. I want to go to Italy. I want to go BSU football games. I want a Starbucks coffee. I want to eat out more. I want some new sunglasses. I want some new tennis rackets. I want...I want...I want...Well I really only want these things if it's what God wants me to have. I want to do His will and not my own. Have you ever thought about everything you really want? Then have you thought about what God wants for you? It's easy to say you want God's will and all He has for you, but when it comes down to it there are lots of things you want where He's not involved. I can't help but think of Galatians 2:20 which reminds me, "My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." Is that true about you today? Sure there are lots of things that would be nice to have, but I don't want them if it's not God's will for me. I'd rather be in the middle of God's will and have nothing, than be out of His will and have everything :) Let me desires be that of Jesus and may I never forget His words in Luke 22:42, "Yet I want your will to be done, not mine."