Believing is Seeing

I am mulling over the feeling I got when a good friend said "the more I reach out and put myself out there, the more I see the goodness and kindness of people. I keep getting more of it." I am feeling those great greyhound realizations afresh as I ride the bus in my old hometown, feeling the sweetness, goodness, and sublime ignorance of the people all around me. How much greater to see this in the world, but how much greater to feel it in your home-town! The timeless wisdom from scripture enters my mind:

I ought not to harrow up in my desires the firm decree of a just God, for I know that he granteth unto men according to their desire whether it be unto death or unto life;

The Lord allows us to get what we look for with our hearts. You could say that as true as "what you see is what you get" is the reverse: what you get is what you see. Consider these next words in conjunction with the first quote:

raised to endless happiness to inherit the kingdom of God, or to endless misery to inherit the kingdom of the devil, the one on one hand, the other on the other — The one raised to happiness according to his desires of happiness, or good according to his desires of good; and the other to evil according to his desires of evil; for as he has desired to do evil all the day long even so shall he have his reward of evil when the night cometh.

These words, to me, can be seen in the light of what we are looking for. Those whose overture on the human race is generally negative can surely be congratulated for seeking diligently, but for the negative. As harsh as this sounds, it is a natural result of the decree of God: Seek and ye shall find. . . He granteth unto men according to their desire. What my friend is saying matches perfectly with what I have unfolded. We seek for and expect good, we get good. In the converse, do you know those who always seem miserable and have an endless supply of tragedy and trouble, and you are tempted to say in contempt, "you seem to just attract trouble". This is sad, but I believe is true. But the good news is that, while our lives will not always be happy, we can attract the good and the things born of light into our lives by our desires/expectations and how our actions demonstrate those desires.