Sustenance

So far the PRISM program has been very good for me physically. My blood pressure has gone way down, I am thinner and I generally feel great, but I am at a point that I can't seem to shake the idea that this is a temporary thing. It hasn't settled yet that I won't ever be eating the same way I used to. I have to admit that I haven't kept up on the readings on a daily basis. I play more of a catch up game a few times a week. I really want this program to be successful so I rededicated myself to doing the program the way it is laid out; reading everyday not just do every day's readings!

Today's reading starts with a verse which I've seen a few times already.

The good man eats to live, while the evil man lives to eat.
(Proverbs 13:25 The Living Bible)

A bent that I have is that I can't read a verse without wanting to read the verses before and after, or looking at what words were chosen, or looking at different translation, so I can really understand what we are supposed to learn. So I read and here is what I found.

I think PRISM chose the Living Bible translation because it is a bit more polished on the theme of eating to live vs. living to eat. While I don't find anything really wrong with the translation I do feel that it implies that the evil man can be satisfied by eating or that it is just the focus of an evil mans desire. Like it is just a choice to do this or that. After reading a few other translations I find that the message seems to be more of being satisfied by God both physically and spiritually when we choose Him or to go on with our life always in want or hunger if we don't chose His path.

The righteous eat to their hearts' content,
but the stomach of the wicked goes hungry.
(Proverbs 13:25 NIV)

The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul:
but the belly of the wicked shall want.
(Proverbs 13:25 KJV)

The righteous have enough to eat,
but the wicked are always hungry.
(Proverbs 13:25 GNB)

The righteous eats to the satisfying of his appetite,
but the belly of the wicked shall lack.
(Proverbs 13:25 LITV)

An appetite for good brings much satisfaction,
but the belly of the wicked always wants more.
(Proverbs 13:25 MSG)

So I read that no matter how much I eat, I will never be satisfied because the hole I am trying to fill is not in my stomach, it is in my soul. Feed my soul and my stomach will no longer hunger. Amazing how God and his Word are so timely. Food may sustain my body on this earth, but God is the real longterm sustenance.

For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
(1 Timothy 4:8) KJV