Don't settle for less.

So as I wrapped up Proverbs today this last Proverb really didn't stick out to me as the other ones did. Pretty much what stood out to me was how bad I want that wife this king was talking about. The way he described her made it seem like she was the perfect girl. After reading that I started to think that there's no way that's possible. I know that view was formed from what I call my unsuccessful dating life:-) but as I started to think about all that stuff and the wife I wanted I thought why not? Why couldn't that happen to me? I believe that's how the Lord spoke to me today was saying to me why not you Gabe? It's funny how easy I forget the promises the Lord has for us. In Psalm 37:4 it says:
Take delight in the LORD,and he will give you the desires of your heart.What's so crazy about that is I say I believe that but when it comes down to thinking that it's for me then I start to doubt it. I know that it's because I go back to all the failed relationships but that doesn't mean that God isn't going to give me the desires of my heart. So many times we always look back to what went wrong or how we screwed something up and based on that, that's how we come to our conclusions that these desires of our hearts will never be fulfilled. Now I know that looking foward to marriage, finishing school, getting through hard and trying times in your life are things that consume our minds. I feel that instead of spending so much time and so much effort trying to fix these things we should know that God is at work and will take care of all these things as long as we put all our hope and faith in him.
Now the reason why the title is Don't settle for less is because I feel that we do that a lot. When it comes to all those things I listed off we just get so tired of waiting that when the slightest thing changes or when a perosn comes into your life we just say ok this is good enough. When I read Psalm 37:4 it's says the desires of my heart, not things that are close or things that I could get use to. Our God is a great and faithful God and because of that we don't have to settle for anything less then our hearts desires.
So my prayer for us today is that we wouldn't settle for anything less then our hearts desires. I pray that God would give us the courage to trust him to do this. I pray for strength and faith for us to let God be God.