Getting What You Want

Have you ever wished you could have whatever you wanted? I mean anything. I was reading something recently about Bill Gates. He was talking about the fact that he could have anything he wanted. That's got to be mostly true. At least if money can buy it. But you and I both know that money can't buy everything. And I know that if I were Bill Gates, there would be something out there that I wanted but couldn't have. So there's nobody who can really have whatever he/she wants.

Except God.

God can have whatever he wants. Anything. Anything. If he wants it, he can have it. There is nothing nothing nothing he could want that he couldn't have. (Don't start with the big rock thing!)

Does this thought intrigue you like it does me? I mean, now I want to go back to the bible and look for what God wants. What does he want. I'm working with the assumption here that he can have what he wants.

Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
(Acts 20:28)

knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.
(1 Peter 1:18-19)

looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives." It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
(Hebrews 12:2-7)

God, who can have anything he wants, paid a precious price - - for you.