Secrets of the Godly

2 Pride leads to disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom...5 The godly are directed by honesty...20 The Lord detests people with crooked hearts, but he delights in those with integrity...25 The generous will prosper; those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed...27 If you search for good, you will find favor... 

- Proverbs 11
5 The plans of the godly are just...6 the words of the godly save lives...12 the godly are well rooted and bear their own fruit...21 No harm comes to the godly..the diligent make use of everything they find. 28 The way of the godly leads to life that path does not lead to death. 

- Proverbs 12

What is the secret to being godly? The LORD shuns the proud but He gives grace to the humble, therefore the first thing to being godly is to be humble. We have to remember in coming to GOD, to ask Him to take away the pride in our hearts because we cannot connect to GOD when the walls of pride are blocking the way. We are humble when we are truly honest within ourselves before GOD, we are sinful nothings in this world. When we understand the wickedness of our hearts GOD takes delight in transforming us into people of integrity, making us generous people that wants to bless others, finding good because then our attitudes are rebuilt by GOD to be positive in the our mindset.

When GOD takes control of a wretched human heart, there are many great miracles that takes place in a man's life, transforming them into godly people that do only what is right, say only good things that could save lives. The ordinary sinful man is transformed to be a godly man because they are rooted deeply in the fellowship of GOD in their hearts, their actions and words would bear them much fruit. Those whose hearts are humble and wiling to be transformed by Him are protected by GOD. HE is protecting their fields and crops in due season for harvest. Through the power of His word the godly could never be lazy, a godly man is a diligent man, following the ways of GOD that always leads to life.

Inheritance of the Godly

But let the godly rejoice.
Let them be glad in God’s presence.
Let them be filled with joy.

Father to the fatherless, defender of widows—
this is God, whose dwelling is holy.
God places the lonely in families;
he sets the prisoners free and gives them joy.
But he makes the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.Praise the Lord; praise God our savior!
For each day he carries us in his arms.

- Psalm 68

Godly people, who are they? They that go to church every Sunday? Go to the Synagogue every Saturday? Godliness is not determined by where one goes to once a week but is determined by what one does everyday with God. When GOD rises up to judge the earth, the godly will know that GOD's hand is at work and even in chaos or calamity the godly will not be shaken, they will rejoice in the Lord their God because they understand that it is HIS move. The godly have no one else to depend on but GOD because they know Him as their Father, and He is defender to those who are helpless without a protector.

God is such a loving Father, He makes sure that orphans have homes to call their own. He provides for those who are unloved and have appointed times to set free those who have been oppressed, they are free one day and GOD brings joy into their hearts. But to those that reject HIM, He makes them live in a dry land. The rebellious don't even know why how they are in a weary place, or how they led themselves to it but their foolishness has led them astray thinking that they are in the best path. But to those that know the Lord, that follow Him everyday, that seek His face daily and eats from the Word of His mouth, they are those that praise God. For each day they understand how close GOD carries them in His heart, they enjoy His love and He enjoys them. This is the inheritance of the godly and there is even so much more that awaits them.

Epitome of Desires

10 [The ladies asked] Who is this that looks forth like the dawn, fair as the moon, clear and pure as the sun, and terrible as a bannered host?
11 [The Shulammite replied] I went down into the nut orchard [one day] to look at the green plants of the valley, to see whether the grapevine had budded and the pomegranates were in flower.
12 Before I was aware [of what was happening], my desire [to roam about] had brought me into the area of the princes of my people [the king’s retinue]. (AMP)

my desire set me among the royal chariots of my people. (NIV)

- Song of Solomon 6:10-12

Why do people take notice of someone? Is it because they are beautiful? But beauty is in the eye of the beholder. A beauty to many may not be beautiful to some. But what causes people to wonder about someone, who is she or he? Who is this that looks forth? Looking forth is someone having hope, looking forward to something, focused, determined and filled with passion. The world looks at you when you are burning brightly with your passion. This woman, whose passion burned bright was taken notice of by the other women in her area and she replies that she wants to see the new growth of the valley of plants, whether the vines have budded or some trees where bearing fruit. As if she has been waiting for a long time for this, as if she has been expecting these plants to bear fruit? Why has she sown in them? Probably she has, she has sown and wanted to know if they have grown and are bearing fruit.

All of us need to sow seeds. Whether it is time with family, our work, our education, our devotion to GOD, our work for GOD in the ministry. Everything that we want to happen in our lives needs to be started with sowing, or doing something to start it. Sowing seeds in whatever areas in our lives will bring us back fruits of whatever we have sown. Our sowing is a result of desires that we may have in our hearts. If our desire is based on the pure and right motives, we will surely enjoy the rewards of our harvest. Desires are the natural currents that we flow through in life. They are the driving force to why we do what we do. Our passions or strong desires will eventually take us somewhere. Search yourself and find out, what are the real intentions and motivations of your desires. Why do you desire such things? Are they carnal desires or godly? Whatever it is, ask GOD to sanctify and purify your desires.

Focus

11 Dear friends, I warn you as “temporary residents and foreigners” to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls. 12 Be careful to live properly among your unbelieving neighbors. Then even if they accuse you of doing wrong, they will see your honorable behavior, and they will give honor to God when he judges the world.
- 1 Peter 2
8 Finally, all of you should be of one mind. Sympathize with each other. Love each other as brothers and sisters. Be tenderhearted, and keep a humble attitude. 9 Don’t repay evil for evil. Don’t retaliate with insults when people insult you. Instead, pay them back with a blessing. That is what God has called you to do, and he will bless you for it.
14 But even if you suffer for doing what is right, God will reward you for it. So don’t worry or be afraid of their threats. 15 Instead, you must worship Christ as Lord of your life.
- 1 Peter 3

These are reminders of things we easily forget about when we journey on our life of faith. One of the best reminders: To keep away from desires that are selfish or wordly that distract our faith by the peace that is taken away from us everytime we entertain those ungodly desires. What are they? Desires that lead us away from putting GOD first in our lives, like selfish ambition, love for money, strive for fame, and similar ambitions that lead to pride and being on top of others. When we have desires, we have to be careful to evaluate each of them, what is the root motive of those desires? Why do we desire them? For what purpose? We need to search our hearts everyday, why we do what we do... Even when we think it's service to GOD or helping others and ministry. There are good and noble things we may do that we do out of wrong motives, but we don't really know we already have wrong motives because motives are hidden in the secret things of a human heart that only GOD truly knows and we can know when we are revealed of the deeper truths within us. 

In order to have godly desires, we need to keep our eyes on JESUS the Messiah, our Savior and LORD, the author and finisher of our faith. HE is the only one who can birth within us desires that are pleasing to GOD. We cannot make up our own godly desires, because human hearts are frail, godly desires only come from GOD, no matter how pure those desires are, only GOD can create right motives within us. Godly desires also lead to harmony with other believers. It doesn't create opposition or strife, but a spirit of unity and harmony. Godly desires also result to compassion and sympathy to others. It creates a spirit of love, tenderheartedness and humility. Having a humble attitude causes us to trust GOD when others hurt or insult us. It will cause us to bless those who have wronged us and this kind of humility is truly a gift from GOD. No human being could ever do this naturally because basic human instinct always want to take vengeance for himself. 

Therefore our focus should continually be in GOD and on His word. We should not allow the expectations of others to rule our lives, pleasing men instead of pleasing GOD. When we strive to please GOD, our hearts are free from fear and we are not moved with threats being taunted at us by the enemy but we will be able to freely worship GOD with each day that we live when we live it in accordance to His will. So focus on the only constant and unchangeable Being, set your eyes on JESUS.