He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them.
The God who created thirst, created water. The God who made hunger, made food. God completes what He puts into motion. He fulfills where He designs emptiness. He provides a key where He has made a lock. He gives a bow where He has tuned the string.
Matthew 5:6
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Grace teaches our hearts to fear and grace our fears relieves. Without His grace, we would not know how to want righteousness. We would be too easily pleased by lesser things. But in His mercy, He does not treat us as our desires deserve. He does not let us obtain our petty hopes and dreams. He instead interferes and interrupts our originally scheduled programming. He reveals the evil in what we've settled for and provides a better vision, an object of desire that can actually satisfy not momentary longings, but eternal destinies.
Matthew 6:33
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
When we seek first things first, we get secondary things thrown in. If we seek secondary things first, we get nothing, not even the secondary thing we made top priority.
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