Confidence Granted

I was struck today by a verse in Proverbs 10: 24. It reads,"What the wicked fears will come upon him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted." The phrase, "will be granted," is what impressed me today. We serve a God Who is good. We are not at the mercy of impersonal forces of nature or random principles that dictate life. We are those who are all, whether we acknowledge it or not,under the hand of the Almighty. So as a believer in Christ, we can know that all righteous desires are from God, and He in deep compassion will grant, allow, permit, give, the righteous fulfillment of righteous desires. This is what John the Apostle wrote in his epistle, 1 John 5:14-15, "This is the the confidence we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him." So the key to abundant life is to have desires and affections that are in accordance with Gods desires and affections. We gain those by prayer, His word, fellowship with His Holy Spirit as we commune with Him, alone and with other believers. This is not an impersonal karma, getting good for doing good things, or bad for bad things. This is the gracious blessings from a gracious God Who desires His people to glorify Him on the earth, by means of fulfilled, purposeful lives that point others to salvation in Christ. Have confidence then, your answer is on the way, to the glory of God and of Christ Jesus.