The more the words, the less the meaning, and how does that profit anyone?
– Ecclesiastes 6:11
May 9 2008
Ecclesiastical Wisdom
May 2 2008
The Desire of the Righteous
This is something that hit me the other day when I was reading in Proverbs the other morning:
“The desire of the righteous ends only in good, but the hope of the wicked only in wrath.”–Proverbs 11:23
I read that, stopped and thought wow! The desire of the righteous ends only in good! And then I looked in my footnotes and they said to look at chapter 10 verses 24 and 28:
“What the wicked dreads will overtake him; what the righteous desire will be granted.”—Proverbs 10:24
“The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hopes of the wicked come to nothing.”–Proverbs 10:28
Now if the Bible says something once, it’s true. But if it says basically the same thing three times in a row?–God must really want to get the point across. (some days I need that–I didn’t really catch it until the third time!) And while all our righteousness is like filthy rags, God looks at us (those who have been sanctified, saved by grace, and redeemed) through the filter of his son’s blood–in his sight we are righteous. That means that our desires will be granted. That’s huge. The God over all the universe, maker of heaven and earth, is promising to grant our desires.
Now we do need to be careful, while He sees us as righteous, we still have a sin nature and so not all of our “desires” are righteous. We must not think that God will just give us every little thing we want. That would make us lazy and selfish, and God doesn’t operate that way–He wants (and acts for) what is for our good.
But if our desires are good and pure, ones that He Himself has implanted into our hearts–they will be granted.
That means that there is hope for my dreams–and yours. Not that we can just sit back and expect a huge farm or whatever to be dropped in our laps, no we need to keep working to gain our goals, but we can reasonably expect our desires to be fulfilled. Not in our time but in God’s time. “He has made everything beautiful in His time.” Ecclesiastes 3:11 So it may not be in our lifetimes, but if we follow His leading, our goals, our dreams, our desires will be accomplished.
What an encouragement! Isn’t God good?
Matthew
P.S. Sorry for the formating–I’ve fought with it for quite a while now and I’m giving up!
Apr 16 2008
Wendsday
There’s nothing to do…nothing at all…so I guess I’ll blog.
I’ve been sick for about 5 days. I’ve had my fill of TV, books on tape, and blankly staring at my computer monitor. With sleeping, that’s about all I’ve been doing of late. Oddly, I haven’t even been hungry enough to eat much. But I’m finally feeling better.
Mom has a new piano student that started today, so she had me clean the family room. Since it is clean (mostly, and won’t be for long) I thought I’d show y’all a picture (don’t expect images of the rest of the house any time soon :-)…)
The fully open window points north.
The other big news is that there was a fire in the hoop coop last night
Fortunately, mom was going to water the chickens when she discovered the hoop coop full of smoke, and the sawdust on top of the brooder was smoldering. Since she had a pitcher full of water in her hand, she threw it on top of the brooder. All the chickens seem fine. God’s providence.
Apparently, the heat lamp bulb was touching the plywood on the top, and started the fire.
Everything has been greening up around here:
And with the temperatures around 70, it definitely feels like spring.
Matthew has been working over at the Williams this week, who have 500 ewes lambing, and been gone from early morning until late night. Baxter misses him dreadfully, and hardly settles down long enough to pick at his sore (from the neighbor dog, but long story). He doesn’t even know about the fire yet.
That’s about all I can think of to write about, without getting into stuff like politics (ZZZzzz…).
To all, a good night.
Jonathan.
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