Those Who Fear God Will Do Well

 

Ecclesiastic 8:10-13

 

Those Who Fear God Will Do Well

 Then I saw the wicked buried. They used to go in and out of the holy place and were praised in the city where they had done such things. This also is vanity.   Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.  Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they fear before him.   But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

 

I had to read this twice before it hit me that many of us who are followers of Christ, get upset, angry, and cannot understand the reason someone who is a criminal and a really bad person, gets anyone to protest the police action until they have observed all the evidence.  I also do not understand how anyone can support a political party that supports the taking of a baby's life as if they were God.  I also do not understand anyone that would support a politician that has no source of income and goes into office poorer than a church mouse and leaves office with millions.  I do not understand, and it makes me mad when it becomes clear that people in the FBI and CIA have lied and tried to remove a president because their handlers fear the man, bringing to light their evil deeds.  Everything in me wants them to be punished as any other American citizen that breaks the law.

 

Judgment day is coming, a great day for those who are righteous because they fear God, and not a good day when the wicked that have no fear in this life stand in judgment.  God will on that day turn light on the darkness of their hearts, every evil deed will be exposed, that will be worse than any earthly court could imagine.

 

Maybe all of us should read this more often, and come to an understanding of what Galatians 6:7-9 is telling us; “Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.   For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.   And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.”

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice