What do you think it means?

See the question at the end of the post.

My eighteen year old granddaughter was baking cookies yesterday and out of the blue said, “Grandma, I want to read you something I read this morning that really made me think”. 

She went to get a book who quoted A.Z. Tozer.   He wrote,

“Sometimes God gives us the desires of our hearts to teach us that it is possible to famish while we feed, that these desires gratify self but send leanness to the soul.  In fact, if we ask God for anything, only desiring to get pleasure out of it, we are asking on a low level.  For prayer is God answering His own desires: that is, desires begotten in the soul by God the Holy Spirit which are presented in the name of God the Son and answered by God the Father”. 

First, I was so thankful that she understood it and that it made her pause and meditate on it.  I had to have her read it again. It is pretty deep and I was a little slower than she was to get it. It helped me to break it up into separate sentences. 

1)“Sometimes God gives us the desires of our hearts to teach us that it is possible to famish while we feed, that these desires gratify self but send leanness to the soul.

2)In fact, if we ask God for anything, only desiring to get pleasure out of it, we are asking on a low level.

3)For prayer is God answering His own desires: that is, desires begotten in the soul by God the Holy Spirit which are presented in the name of God the Son and answered by God the Father”.

How profound. 

1)That the Lord gives us what we “our” desires are to see that they don’t satisfy like we thought they would.

2)That when we ask for things we want to get pleasure out of, we are asking on a “low level”.
 
3)That our desires need to line up with His desires and they will be answered.

How do we get out desires to line up with the Lords? 

Matthew 6:32-33 says to, “ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

Seeking God and His righteousness. 

Question:   What do you think that means?  How would you go about seeking Him?
Please send a comment!  I will share it with our readers.   Thanks so much! 

Blessings,  Pat
A.W, Tozer, “Missing Jewel,” Essays on Prayer (Downers Grove, Ill.A: Inter Varsity, 1968),9-10