Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalm 37:4
When God made mankind, he created a family for himself. He’s our Father, and just as human parents don’t want to control their adult children, he doesn’t want to control us.
Kids are mis-managers in general. They don’t know how to manage their teeth, their clothes, their bedrooms, their diets, or even going to the washroom at first! But with time and a lot of training, they learn to manage these things and more. We teach them how to drive, how to walk and talk, how to handle people, how to obey the law and, as believers, how to understand who they are in Christ.
And we do all of this training with the goal of one day releasing them into the world. Our goal as human parents isn’t to make every decision for our grown children. We want to raise them up to manage their own lives well and then release them into the world.
God is the same way. He wants to release you into this planet to achieve the dreams you have inside your heart. God wants to see you rise up and succeed!
I’m not saying that God backs you when you go after negative, destructive dreams. Human parents want their kids to live out their dreams within certain boundaries too. No parent wants their kid to achieve a dream of becoming an axe murderer, for example! Your Father God is the same.
God isn’t out to limit or control you. He wants to give you the desires of your heart…which will be good desires as long as you continue to value and take pleasure in your relationship with him.