SATISFIED WITH GOOD – Proverbs 12:14
Proverbs 12:14 A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompense of a man’s hands shall be rendered unto him.
Have you every experienced a time when God used you to touch the life of another by encouraging them with your mouth? Afterwards, your heart should have been filled with joy knowing that the words that you just spoke were not your own but that God gave you the words to speak. You can have great satisfaction being used of God to touch the lives of others.
In this passage we learn the importance of doing things according to the ways of God. If you take the time to add knowledge of the ways of God to your life, then your heart will be filled with the truth of scripture. As you go about your daily life, God will bring people into your life for you to minister to. You will not always be thinking about how you can help another, but when the time comes, you will not think twice and you will be amazed at how God can use you.
The things of this world never satisfy. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus commanded us to lay not up for ourselves treasures upon earth but to lay up for ourselves treasures in heaven. The things of this world can easily be destroyed. Job had great possessions and he saw how in a single day, God took away all of his possessions. Job was well diversified, he owned sheep, camels, oxen, asses, and servants. However, God had an important lesson he needed Job to learn so all of his possessions were taken away.
Very little of the book of Job is spent talking about his great wealth. Instead, most of the book is about God and how man should interact with God. There were some who advised Job was secular reasoning, however, Job sinned not and did not follow the advise of his miserable counselors. The friends of Job had an excellent opportunity to be satisfied with the fruit of their mouth, but instead they needed the prayers of Job because of the iniquity that uttered out of their mouth.
Elisha was a man who had great wealth. However, one day he was called of God to serve Elijah. Elisha was very quick to say good-bye to his family and start following the Lord. Elisha was use to being a great man who had servants who obeyed him, now he had to serve a man who had the ear of God. Elisha had his reward, before Elijah ascended up into heaven, he was able to ask for a double portion of the power of Elijah and God gave it unto him. Elisha had been willing to serve, and now God was going to use Elisha to remind the nation that there was a living God.
Are you ready to see what God can do with your life? If you are ready to see true satisfaction, if you are ready to see heavenly rewards, then you must surrender not only your life, but also your heart and your soul to God. You must allow the word of God to wash you so that out of the abundance of your heart, your mouth can speak.
Take time every day to be alone with God. This means that you must take the time to not only read the Bible, but to meditate upon it and to pray it back to HIM. You must be an active reader of the Bible. You must be asking God to speak to you through the Bible. Take time to seek to hear the still small voice of God.