FAITH CAPSULE: Are you righteous, or are you wicked? 

Psalm 139 

To gain and retain the presence of God, one has to keep searching for oneself as David did.
Psalm 139:1, “O Lord, You have searched me and known me.”
Psalm 139:23, “Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties.”
The word of God demands all to serve, to be righteous before God, doing right at all times. 
To be doing right before God is to know the word of God and live life by His word.
Isaiah 3:10-11 records the mind of God towards how individuals serve God: “Say to the righteous that it shall be well with them, For they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, For the reward of his hands shall be given him.”
Know to serve God right is to sow fruit to reap from God.
Living life to please God is sowing to reap good before God.
Living life to know good before God and not doing good before God is wrong, the mark of a wicked one.
Who are you before God? 
How are you serving God?
Search yourself before God to know yourself and how you are serving Him.
Are you righteous, or are you wicked? 
Interestingly, serving God by all is not hidden, but in the word of God, identified to know God.
Despise from wickedness, and live life right before God to reap the goodness of God.
The error in life is answering as a believer and living a life of wickedness.
Jeremiah must have been curious by the wicked act of acclaimed believers before he asked God: “Righteous are You, O Lord when I plead with You; Yet let me talk with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those happy who deal so treacherously? You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; They grow, yes, they bear fruit. You are near in their mouth but far from their mind.” (Jeremiah 12:1-2)
One who is wicked cannot possibly be righteous before God.
The wicked ones are quick to quote the word of God, but the word of God is far from the mind with no fear of God. 
One with the mind of God will experience the hand of God that is in place for righteous ones with the fear of God.
Isaiah 3:10-11 records the judgment of God for the right ones and the wicked ones: “Say to the righteous that it shall be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, For the reward of his hands shall be given him.”
Know God by His word to fear Him, and be obedient by serving God right, not as a wicked one.
The judgment of God for how all serve Him matters.

Prayer for today: Ask that you live life for God, not a life of waste.