FAITH CAPSULE: Are you standing on the side of God?
Psalm 73
The psalmist could not look away from the wickedness activities under heaven when was provoked with the statement in Psalm 73:3-6, “For I was envious of the boastful when I saw the prosperity of the wicked for there are no pangs in their death, but their strength is firm. They are not in trouble as other men, nor are they plagued like other men. Therefore, pride serves as their necklace; violence covers them like a garment.” (Psalm 73:3-6)
Are you one that finds it challenging to look away from wickedness or comfortable seeing wicked activities in your vicinity?
Are you being intimated by wicked ones, by their ways of life?
Be restful and know that God is never asleep nor slumber but will separate the wicked from ones that are not wicked.
Look away from the wicked not to be envious of the wickedness activities.
The same God yesterday, today, and tomorrow will not overlook the wickedness of today.
Matthew 13:30 records what the end awaits the wicked as the tares: “Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them but gather the wheat into my barn.’”
Where do you stand?
Are you a representative of wheat or tare by your ways of life?
Rainfall with all that contributes to growth for wheat and tares are in a position to be benefited.
Also, tares can be appearing fat and better than wheat, but the intervention time to separate wrong from right, good ones from the wicked one is at the appointed time of God.
In life, live by the word of God to be prepared for harvest time that is coming.
Wickedness is evil, and evil is sin evidence of not having fear for God.
God can be a longsuffering God with His sentence against evil work might not be at speed, but God is in control, and He sees the affairs of all.
Ecclesiastes 8:11-13 is a warning for learning to all, “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. 12 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.”
A wicked can appear as growing fine and better under heaven but will not be excepted for wickedness before God.
God sees all, and at His appointed time, He shall come to judge.
Prayer for today: Ask for deliverance and not be a wicked one in all ways of life.