“GOD GRANTED WHAT HE ASKED!”

 1 Chronicles 4:9-10                    (ESV)

“[9] Jabez was more honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”[10] Jabez called upon the GOD of Israel, saying, OH THAT YOU WOULD BLESS ME and enlarge my border, and that YOUR HAND might be with me, and that YOU would keep me from harm so that it might not bring me pain!” And “GOD GRANTED WHAT HE ASKED”.”

The name Jabez is only recorded very few times in the BIBLE.   But “Jabez was more honorable than his brothers”, according to the Scripture above and that needs to be noticed!  Jabez wasn’t just “honorable” among others, but he was BLESSED by ALMIGHTY GOD because it is recorded “GOD GRANTED WHAT HE ASKED”!!

What “others” see in us could be tainted by the lenses they observe through?  But when the CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE rewards one, the validity of their lives has to be recognized as nothing other than BLESSED BY THE ALMIGHTY!!  Was Jabez “better” than the rest of us?  No, but he was CHOSEN by his CREATOR to accomplish HIS PLAN, therefore “GOD GRANTED WHAT HE ASKED” so that Jabez could GLORIFY HIM!!!