Who have I in heaven?.....

I always think of 37 and 73.

Ps 37:4 delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desire of your heart

Ps 73: Psalm:73:25 Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you.

Ask a question. Expect an honest answer. Not lying. Honest.

What do you want. What do you desire? 100% truthfulness.

Boyfriend. Girlfriend. Money. Husband. Wife. Sex. Car. Text friend. House. Trip. Power. Food. Health.. I desire. I desire. I desire. Endless is the list. Endless.

So how can these psalms be humanly true? They can't. We would lie to ourselves. They just can't be true physically. Impossible.

David 37 and Asaph 73. They asked for so many things in all their psalms. David thousands of times times desired so many things. From women to death of people. Till his dying breath he desired to kill people. He desired women. He got any he wanted.

So David could easily write psalm 37. Easy. But it doesn't work for us. So how did he desire in the LORD to get all the women he wanted? Murdered who he wanted.

I think we must stop trying to convince ourselves we desire nothing. When we sing these songs...what? For a split second we are totally satisfied...till song over?

Spiritually. David has a focus on salvation. No one, but no one is perfect. David always desired a strong spiritual walk with God, in spite of his faults. He was granted this by God. He was abandoned. Alone. Down. But God gave him the spiritual desire of his heart: a strong walk with God.

Asaph focuses on no other God but YHWH. No other God in heaven. And there are no man made gods that can replace heavenly God, YHWH.

we all struggle. We are all made from dust. We all have individual desires. Up to here, we are all the same.

But not all of see LORD Jesus as our spiritual Saviour. This is shown as to how important Jesus is in our life. Only then, can these psalms be real and true.