Trusting God After all (Psalm 37:1-4)
When I struggle, there is a scripture that I go back regularly and read. It is Psalm 37:1-4 Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious of wrongdoers! For they will soon fade like the grass And wither like the green herb. Trust in the Lord, and do good; Dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the Lord, And he will give you the desires Of your heart. No matter in what kind of situation we might find ourselves in among people, our vertical relationship with God should take the precedent over our horizontal relationships. We cannot change people anyway and we must trust God for them and with them. We cannot be jealous of them because they are getting away with so many things. We must find our comfort in the fact that we in the end have the better end of the stick. The end with the honey. Our hope is that sweet compared to the pleasures of sin. Even people around let themselves slide into complacency I