Contemplative Bible Reading

Proverbs 11:19 (New Living Translation)

Godly people find life;
evil people find death.

Life and death. In the final reckoning, what else is there? This chapter runs through a number of ways to say this, but this is the summary. Do what God wants us to do, and good will come back to us. Ignore God’s advice, and after a while, suffering comes.

Note that there is no promise of an easy life. (“Easy” is subjective, and since I am the subject, I decide what that is. Silly me.) Simply life. Simply the greatest blessing the God gives.

What do I want? Am I humble enough to follow God’s advice instead of finding my own clever shortcuts through some desire to “make my own mistakes?”

My own life is pretty good. I won’t burn words listing my blessings. I can puff up and say that it is my just reward for following God, but that would be merely silly puffing. God blesses in ways that God sees fit, and God knows what fits each one of us.

Attempt to be Godly each moment. Enough written. Now let’s pray for such.