Missing Life, Looking for Happiness

Psalm 73:4-17

If you see the many good neighbors and sad to say even relatives that make no time for God in their daily lives, it seems as if many have everything that this world system calls essential.  It is easy to see how brothers or sisters in Christ who appear never to have the stuff their neighbors or relatives have, could become envious.  When one who follows Christ sees prosperity, and abundance of those who have no place for God and many seem to worship stuff, money, and what money can buy, the enemy will offer alternatives to the worship of God.

Often, as Asaph has noticed in this Psalm, the wicked seem to get by with crimes that would put others in prison, such as many in Washington D.C.  Some of the proudest and most arrogant people are those who have no place in their lives for God or His Son.  You find they have no fear of God and have no trouble blaspheming the name of our God or making little of those who worship Him.  One of the lies that the enemy of our soul tells us is that those who have no place for God live life without trouble, that is just not true!   If you are allowing God's Holy Spirit to lead you, you have something money cannot buy, peace, kindness, and joy, and the best they get are happy when things go right.

Now listen to verse 16-17, “When I tried to understand all this, it troubled me deeply till I entered the sanctuary of God; then I understood their final destiny.”  God tells us in Scripture that life on planet earth is like a mist, but eternity is endless.  You would think that folks would give more thought to where they are going to spend eternity?

Verses 18-19, “Surely you place them on slippery ground; you cast them down to ruin.  How suddenly are they destroyed, completely swept away by terrors!”

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice