Good or Evil, God or Self

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
GOOD OR EVIL
GOD OR SELF
Prov 11:27
27 He who seeks good finds goodwill,
but evil comes to him who searches for it.
NIV
I think there is no question here that good is what I should be seeking. I think the truths behind the truth lies in this word seek. The Hebrew word actually means to dawn i.e. be up early at any task with the implication of earnestness extended to search for something with painstaking effort. What greater good can I seek then to rise up early in the morning and be the first task of my day and search for the truth of God? Unknowing for the past seven hundred plus days I have been accomplishing the truth of this proverb. Certainly the Word of God is crammed pack with goodwill, God unveiling his truth to my heart. But I think also there may be an implication in regards to how I interact with people, but I am convinced seeing the second half this has to do with my heart and the good within the Word verses the evil within the ways of the world. This searching for evil is not the same as the seeking good. This word means to frequent, to follow and specifically to worship. If I were to follow after the ways of the world, the anti-God system of living for self and personal gratification always thinking about how everything affects me, being self-centered in that sense, it would be as if I were making me the most important thing, self-worship, and that would absolutely be evil. I cannot allow that type of thought to enter my being. Although I certainly make my fair share of mistakes and have moments of thinking about my own situation and how at times become defensive in my interactions with others, I believe in my heart I am not searching for evil but only being subject to my humanity, not being perfect. I think it is the attitude of which direction I desire to live. I seek the good of God, not follow after the evil of self.