Life is Good

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
LIFE IS GOOD
Prov 10:22
22 The blessing of the LORD brings wealth,
and he adds no trouble to it.
NIV
I think maybe God is trying to tell his people something here. I believe I have understood this for a very long time. I know he has blessed me. Now do I have wealth? Not according to some, or in comparison to others, but I am indeed a very wealthy man. These Hebrew words could just as easily said that the blessing of the Lord brings accumulation, or growth and it is without difficult labor. It might well be about spiritual growth rather than material, but as I trust the Lord to guide those scholars in correctly dividing the word into English I must see this wealth as to make rich. Still I certainly can be made rich in the spirit rather than in the flesh, or at least along with the flesh. I have to say as long as I have been a believer I really have had no trouble in my life. Oh sure there have been times which might be considered difficult by others, but not to me. If I know the Lord and understand that I am in the palm of his hand what could anything in this world do to really harm me. Little hiccups in life are just that and in the grand scheme of things, nothing. I have been given great spiritual wealth; I have been given his word. There can be no greater wealth in the entire world which could compare to that. Still I could also say that in compared to many people of the world I have great material wealth, but that is only because I live in the country I do. If I apply this verse to all believers all over the world, some live in extreme material poverty and thus this verse does not apply to them, or it does in the spiritual wealth sense. What matters most to God? I have to say I am blessed spiritually, as much as any other believer in any material situation. In this blissful state of blessings I can live far above all the circumstances of live and thus have no trouble. Life is good, my life is good!