Absolutely Good
You heal us of the incurable.
You rescue us from the hopeless.
You are absolutely benevolent.
Your goodness is eternal and infinite.
The blessing of the LORD makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.
Proverbs 10:22
I make these claims, because I know that God is the Creator of Time and Space. He established the borders and boundaries of the seas, just as He created day and night. And I make the bold claim that He that made time and space is Himself beyond time and space… But through the revelation of Christ – yes, Christ, the living revelation of God’s love – I am led to believe and proclaim that this same God who I say is beyond time and space, chooses to dwell in us and with us at all times and no matter where we are; He is as much IN time and space as He is beyond it.
And I’m not saying I have God all figured out – heavens forbid! No, I feel as if the more we learn about God, the closer we bring ourselves to Him; or, rather, the closer we are drawn to Him. But it’s not as if He is away from us – no, the ever-present God is fully present in us as we are present in Him, and I say that in light of our current finite state, all we can do is just take in as much of the infinite love as we could, from the infinite Lover of our souls. The ever-glorious One is ever-present, more than we realize; This gives us another perspective to how we move from glory to glory.
The ESV tells us that Proverbs 10:22 has another interpretation: The blessing of the LORD makes rich, and toil adds nothing to it . It’s as if we’re to realize the obvious, (1) that there are no sorrows accompanying the infinite blessings of an infinite God, but also that (2) even if there was any possibility of sorrow thrown to what we do receive… it adds nothing to it. I’m led to recall how when the leper interacted with Jesus, it’s not Jesus who took the leprosy, but it’s the leper who received His cleanliness, and consequently His healing and restoration.
May we continue to draw to our Savior during these times of physical and mental turmoil. Truly, Father,
You heal us of the incurable.
You rescue us from the hopeless.
You are absolutely benevolent.
Your goodness is eternal and infinite.
Good, Absolutely
I couldn’t help but see how Proverbs 10:22 doesn’t seem like a ‘standalone’ verse; it looks like it’s part of the verses before it.
The tongue of the righteous is choice silver; the heart of the wicked is of little worth.
The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.
Proverbs 10:20-21
And I’m sure I may have written about these verses before, elsewhere and else-when, but I’d like to go through them again, in light of how I’ve been brought to Proverbs 10:22. Or I don’t think I’ve seen this, in this sense, before today – because seeing those verses, I could re-word them so we read that the fruit of the righteous is good, but the root of the wicked (and consequently foolish) is bad.
So many implications we could derive from that. It’s to say that the fruit is as the root; as the fruit is good, so the righteous root is good; and as the wicked/foolish root is bad, so you can expect the fruit to be as bad.
‘Good’ is elaborated on as precious (choice silver) and prosperous (feeding many), so we can naturally derive ‘Bad’ as ‘little worth’.
But what about where it says that ‘fools die for lack of sense’? Well, I’m reminded of something I may have seen last time – that is, that lack of sense leads to poverty, sure, but I feel more than the prosperity most of us are brought to appreciate, we’re to see that the root of the righteous apparently is full of ‘sense’.
The ‘KJV+’ Version seen on the free e-Sword Windows app tells us that ‘but fools die for want of wisdom.’; So if we’re having trouble understand what ‘sense’ may be, at least we can say that with righteousness comes wisdom… and with wisdom comes prosperity (or, the power to feed many, at the very least).
I approached this thinking that I wanted to implicate how God’s blessings are solely for the righteous, but in the light of how verses 20 and 21 talk about the fruits of the righteous (and in our case, those made righteous through Christ), I’m considering how we can look at verse 22 solely as the fruit, or the blessings of the Lord. So can we therefore say, that sure, He adds NO sorrow, but in His absolute righteousness and infinite wisdom, His blessings add absolute value, and infinite prosperity?
You can imagine how I wanted to hit the brakes as soon as I typed ‘infinite prosperity’; Perhaps, ‘prosperity in the light of eternity’ is more appropriate?
All things considered, I will say this: The righteous are blessed, sure, but the greatest blessing that there is – well, it’s righteousness. And there’s no greater demonstration, no fuller dispensation of righteousness apart from our Savior, Jesus Christ.
For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.
Romans 11:36
I know that I was supposed to be sharing what’s been going on, and what’s been revealed with every day to make up for the backlog of 1000-word articles… but let’s just say something came up, changes have happened, and I’m now playing catch-up to catch-up. I apologize, but I will try to be more consistent. And I mean this in every way possible. Besides, a lot has been revealed now that I’ve been walking, worshipping, and writing more than I’m used to.
Until the next post coming soon, God bless you.
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