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I don't deserve anything. I don't deserve wealth, I don't deserve a girlfriend, or a wife, or anything else I conjure up. You can search through all of Scripture and you will find that it doesn't say we deserve anything, because we don't. We rebelled against God in the beginning, and thus we fell. We continue to rebel against Him every day. Jesus died for our sins not because we earned it, but because He loves us and did so completely out of His mercy. God blesses His children not because they deserve what they get. Believers still suffer, so what would that say about our God if all believers got what they deserve? Rather, God blesses His children out of His mercy and grace — if He wills it. Deserve's got nothing to do with it. "Deserve" is a human imagined "right" to the things we desire, but we don't deserve anything.
If I want wealth, I can pray for it in accordance to God's will. I want a girlfriend and a wife some day, so I pray that He wills it to happen. But I know that I don't deserve someone to love me as I am. If God wills it to happen, glory be to Him. If He doesn't, He still gets all the glory because I deserve nothing. I am a sinner and nothing I will ever do will earn me that self-imagined "right."
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