FAITH CAPSULE: The heart is the place for the wicked to establish.
Psalm 73
The place of wickedness is in the heart that is wickedness has its seat in the heart.
Jeremiah 17:9-10 made it known that the heart is the seat (center) 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 is the heart of wickedness that is the identity of the believer or unbeliever.
It is certain all are deceived, but not God.
Can you search if you are wicked?
The acclaimed believer should not be with a wicked heart.
Psalm 73 identifies what the heart of a wicked one is like:
Pride serves as their necklace.
Violence covers them like a garment.
Their eyes bulge with abundance.
They have more than a 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 with a head full of the word of God but empty in the heart where wickedness occupies?
In these wicked days, the sentence of God will answer with speed because God sees it all.
Are your ways rooted in wickedness?
The activity 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?
God pays attention to the acts of the evil-doing, and God sees all.
Are you wicked?
The way of the wicked can appear better and glamorous.
However, none should focus on the acts of the wicked ones but 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.
There is no judge but God.
Are you observing the activities of the wicked world, or are you a part of the wickedness of the world?
To you, does it appear as if wicked doing will last forever?
God sees it all, and appointed time will respond to the wicked ones and their activities under the heaven.
The book of Ecclesiastes 8:11-13 speaks warning for a heart that is wise not to engage evil, “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.”
All should make amends not to be of wickedness.
God sees it all.
Prayer for today: Ask against having a place for wickedness in the heart.