People are very apt to find what they seek. You have noticed that people who go about looking for trouble, practically always find it. The popular proverb, “Listeners seldom hear good of themselves,” is an example. We also know people who love to say that they never have any luck. When things seem to go against them, they exclaim triumphantly, “Wouldn’t you know it?—that is what always happens to me!”
Now, such a mistaken person needs only to alter this habit and he will automatically alter his life. It is often difficult to20get such people to make this alteration, but if they do the result is never in doubt. Spiritual law says that it is never too late to mend, and that when we seek God’s help we find it.
Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth;for I am God, and there is none else (Isaiah 45:22).
While I have no idea what this proverb means, I do know that when we expect trouble we draw it to ourselves. God instructs us to live with hope and confidence that he will provide everything we need if we live according to his will. This philosophy of negative expectation supplants our will for his and defies his instruction. Fatalism and defeatism are often used to rationalize or cloak the fear of taking a risk, self doubt, the unwillingness to accept God’s will or simple laziness. Expect and seek good in all things and it will be found.
In hope, confidence and expectation,
Z Gardener
Good Morning Garden 
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