The Soul of the Righteous

The Soul of the Righteous
Paulette Fraticelli

(Prov 10:3 LITV) Jehovah will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but He pushes away the desire of the wicked.

This morning we continue Walking in the Wisdom of God. In this verse Solomon contrasts God's response to the desires of both the righteous and the wicked. For the righteous the message is clear: Jehovah will never leave us, nor forsake us (Heb 13:5).

He will not allow the thirst of our souls to go unfulfilled. He is a loving, caring and sharing heavenly Father who wants to bless His children.

The psalmist said, "For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly" (Psalm 84:11). Let that sink in for a moment. He will not withhold any good thing from those that walk upright! He will not ignore those that are in covenant with Him. He will hear our cry. He will answer our call. He will take the time to commune with us, but we must have a relationship with Him and our heart must be in the right place. Our motives must be pure.

God is not promising to give us everything we ask, but He has promised to give us everything we need to fulfill our purpose in the earth and to maximize our potential along the way. Jesus said it best when He said: "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled" (Mat 5:6).

When I read this verse the first thing that comes to my mind is prayer. I know from scripture and experience that God is committed to fulfilling the prayers of those that are committed to Him.

However, He does not obligate Himself to those that are not in covenant with Him. The Apostle John knew a great deal about prayer. Not only was he part of Jesus' inner circle (along with Peter and James), but he was also the disciple that lived the longest. I am sure he spent countless hours in prayer while he was on the island of Patmos.

In his first letter he said, "Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him" (1st John 3:21,22).

John told us that we will receive whatever we ask, but he also explained that it will only come if we pray with confidence and if we obey God commands.

The wicked Solomon refers are not living lives pleasing to God. Therefore, they cannot come to God in confidence. They don't have a covenant to have confidence in.

In the fifth chapter John said, "And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life." Whenever I read that I like to say, "What are your questions?" That is about as clear as it can be. Those that have accepted Jesus are in covenant with Jehovah and those that have not are not.

John went on to say, "I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us-whatever we ask-we know that we have what we asked of him" (1st John 5:11-15).


Your relationship with Jesus should give you complete and total confidence with the Father. You should come to Him with the assurance of knowing that He will not withhold any good thing from you. However, those that have not accepted His Son, who are not in covenant with Him, don't have that confidence.

Can God have mercy upon them? Absolutely! But you don't want to live your life based upon grace and mercy alone. Your life should be rooted and grounded in the covenant that you have with the Father, sealed by the blood of His Son, your Savior - Jesus the Christ!

Father, I thank You for making me righteous by the blood of Your Son Jesus! I was lost, but now I am found. I was "the wicked," by now I am "the righteous," and I live as such. I come boldly before the throne of Your grace, in the name of Your Son, and I obtain help in the time of need. I boldly and confidently pray and I know that You hear and respond to the petitions of Your children. You will never allow my soul to go hungry. You continually satisfy my heart with good things! In Jesus' name. Amen.