If You Found A Bottle...

May 3

If you found a bottle—a lovely antique that was clearly a relic from another age, another culture—and as you began to rub and polish it, an amazing thing happened! A genie emerged! And that genie smiled at you and told you that you could rub the bottle one more time and request anything your heart desired—and it would be granted to you…

What would you ask of the genie? Success in personal relationships? Success in business? Fame? Fortune? Long life? Would one wish be enough to satisfy the longing deep within your heart? Perhaps it would be prudent if the one request were that all requests into the unseen recesses of the future be granted!

Alluring as the tale of the magic bottle and its resident genie with the power to grant wishes might be, it is just that—an alluring tale. Were there any substance to it, most of us would spend a lifetime searching for just such a bottle. And many of us do pursue dreams that are as elusive as the proverbial genie in the bottle.

We do that although we have a promise in the Word of God that speaks to the longings of our hearts in a way that is far better than any fabrication of cultural lore. Psalm 37:4 says, “Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.” The beauty of the promise is that what God gives will be not only your delight to receive but also His delight to grant!