FAITH CAPSULE: Focus on God continually, with a mind that stays on God.
Psalm 73
The active of the wicked is to do evil.
Genesis 6:4 records the word of God about the wicked, “Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
Are you questioning the acts of the wicked ones before God?
God pays attention to the acts of the evil of the wicked ones, He sees all.
The way of the wicked appears better and glamorous. However, none should focus on the acts of the wicked ones.
Focus on God continually, with a mind that stays on God.
Only God is the judge, and all should allow God to judge as He pleases.
Are you observing the doing of wicked activities?
To you, does it appear as if wicked doing will last forever?
God sees it all, and His appointed time will respond to the wicked ones and their activities under heaven.
The book of Ecclesiastes 8:11-13 buttresses, “Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him. But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.”
Are your ways rooted in wickedness?
God sees all the doings of all.
Wickedness has its seat in the heart.
Jeremiah 17:9-10 made it known about the seat (heart) of the wicked, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? I, the LORD, search the heart; I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.” The deceitful heart can be the heart of an unbeliever or an acclaimed believer, but you should not deceive yourself because God cannot become deceived.
Can you search if you are wicked?
Any man that claims to be a believer should not carry a heart that is deceitful and desperately wicked.
Psalm 73 identifies what the heart of wicked one is like:
Pride serves as their necklace.
Violence covers them like a garment.
Their eyes bulge with abundance.
They have more than heart could wish.
They increase in riches.
They scoff and speak wickedly concerning oppression.
They speak loftily (arrogantly)
They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.
Are you an acclaimed believer that has the word of God un-internalized, not translated into practice but engages life as a wicked one?
In these wicked days, it is time to make amends and know that the sentence against an evil work will be judge speedily by God that sees it all.
Prayer for today: Ask God to help you that your heart shall have no dwelling place for wickedness.