Proverbs 10:3,24,29

Proverbs 10:3 The LORD will not allow the righteous soul to famish, But He casts away the desire of the wicked.
Proverbs 10:24 The fear of the wicked will come upon him, And the desire of the righteous will be granted.
Proverbs 10:29 The way of the LORD is strength for the upright, But destruction will come to the workers of iniquity.

Are we seeking to be filled at the Lord's table and no other? The Lord will not allow a righteous soul to be hungry.

Matthew 5:6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.

Are we hungering and thirsting for the will of the father? We have the promise from God that if we are hungry and thirsty to be right with Him we will be filled with that righteousness. In one sense we are made completely righteous when we give our life to Christ, He made us free from sin and cleansed us. Yet in another sense we must walk daily in confession and repentance.

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

When Jesus was washing the disciples feet (John 13:5-10), he told Peter that unless He wash Peter, Peter could have no part in Him. Then Peter replied asking for a complete bath! But Jesus said that he'd been made clean already, he only need his feet washed. Jesus was referring to the fact that Peter's faith had saved him, yet he still needed daily washing, just like his feet did.

If we are seeking to be filled with God with all our heart, we know from these verses that God will hear and will answer and not allow that righteous/being made righteous soul to starve from the presence of and relationship with the Father. Then the Proverb (10:29) says that the desire of the righteous will be granted. If we are firstly submitted, then being cleansed day by day we will receive that which we ask for.

1 John 3:22-24 And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight. (23) And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment. (24) Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

Matthew 7:7-8 "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. (8) "For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

Jesus promises that we will get whatever we ask for in righteousness, because the righteous soul is one that is walking in obedience to His commands and doing those things that are pleasing the sight of the Father. If we are ones that are cleaned and directed by the Spirit of God, abiding in One-ness with the Father, then we will truly receive what we ask for.

The Lord also says that if we delight in Him, He will give us the desires of our heart. Those "desires" could be those things that we are asking according to His will, and they could also be that as we delight in Him, He puts His desires in our heart, thereby guiding us to His will.

Psalms 37:4 Delight yourself also in the LORD, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.

Many times we don't get what we ask for of course, however that's because we ask amiss, seeking selfish fulfillment, seeking to be satisfied by something other than the very Person of God.

James 4:3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.

If we are seeking Jesus and are righteous before Him, our greatest satisfaction will be His presence in our heart and nothing that we might ask for. Then when we ask, we are asking according to the will of God and not man.

John 14:14-16 "If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. (15) "If you love Me, keep My commandments. (16) "And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever;

Jesus said, "ask...I will do it. If you love Me, keep my commandments." This relates back to the last Proverb (10:29) that says that the "way of the Lord is strength for the upright." If we love Jesus, being made righteous by His sacrifice and daily forgiveness, if we are seeking and hungering for God's will, asking for the things that He puts on our hearts, we will gladly be walking in the power of the Spirit, walking in obedience. Obedience is the result of love for God. Fortunately God knows our heart and knows that we can't just conjure up that love. He says that He has sent a helper to live with us. That Helper of course is the Spirit of God and is there to guide and motivate us toward love for God.

The greatest success, the greatest call, the greatest satisfaction, the greatest gift, the greatest pursuit is to love God with all of our heart and mind and soul and strength, by the grace and power of the Spirit.

John 4:34 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.

If we want to be like Jesus our desire will be to love and pursue God with all our heart, asking for and doing the will of God. May we worship our Master and Creator today with simply faith and obedience. Lord show us Your will that we might serve you in it!