“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life.” Proverbs 13:12
We’ve all been there! We’ve made our plans and had our goals, only to have them dashed to pieces. Those “hopes” we’ve cherished and embraced suddenly come to naught. It does make one’s “heart sick”. But it’s true of the opposite as well! Those “desires fulfilled”, are fantastic, and so we say with great enthusiasm, Life Is Good! So, is Solomon just giving us an observation here, or does he have Wise Counsel to share?
Well, consider where this “Hope” is. Is it in Us, or in God? Is it that we have planned and done all to be successful, and are bummed when it doesn’t turn out? Or, that we have 1st Prayed and committed our Way to the Lord, and then trusted the results to Him? Yes! Definitely Wisdom here!!!