True Enjoyment

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
TRUE ENJOYMENT
Prov 13:2
2 From the fruit of his lips a man enjoys good things,
but the unfaithful have a craving for violence.
NIV
I believe it is only from the lips of God that I enjoy my good life. He has declared the only way for me to truly enjoy good things is to recognize they all good things come from him. I absolutely believe if a man tries to live without the words from the lips of God he will experience violence. When I read the Hebrew it speaks clearer to the contrast of the result of the righteous and the wicked in this sense. I being one of righteous will eat good, or experience good, which of course is eternal life. But those who are considered by God as unfaithful will experience violence. I want nothing to do with violence therefore I will not be counted as unfaithful or among those who act covertly. I need to be feed from the word of God, the truly good nourishment for my soul. I need to eat and digest his words so as to make them an integral part of my very being. Now it is also true that the manner and words that I use in my life and in the conversation with others has a great effect on my life as well. If I used hateful and harmful words towards other I might be considered as have a craving for violence. However, if I share from the very Word of God I not only will I enjoy good things but those who here my words will also. I cannot imagine life without the words of God. I cannot comprehend how people refuse to accept his words as the source of all good things. I will continue to eat from his words, and someday I will eat from the tree of life in the center of the paradise of God. Why would someone choose violence over good things? Maybe they just do not know any better, or maybe they simply enjoy their life and think God’s way is too confining and restrictive for their liking. But the simple fact is he words bring true freedom and they are confined and restricted by their own minds from enjoying all good things. I enjoy.