Don’t Fret Over Evil

Do you watch the news and get all jerked out of shape because of the evils you see?Well, here is what David had to say about that in Psalm 37 verses 1 through 3.

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.

The Lord doesn’t say there won’t be evil people around or that they are out of his control. We must remember that they will not be around forever. Their lives are like grass that dries up in the hot sun without water.

Instead of focusing on them, we must trust in the Lord to take care of them and while we are waiting, we are to do good. While we live on this alien planet that isn’t our forever home, we must be faithful.

We must be faithful to pray for the wicked and do what we can to share the gospel with them. That gospel tells of salvation for them and you if you don’t know Jesus. If you don’t know Jesus, then you are counted with the evildoers.

To know Jesus Christ who is the only way to eternal life, watch my video on the Gospel on my profile page or on YouTube.

God Bless you.

Holy God

A holy God must punish sin, but "For our sake he made him [Jesus] to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."

 

What does it mean for the Lord to be holy? Psalm 5:4-6 gives us a glimpse of what it means by telling us some things that our holy Lord won't tolerate.

4 For you are not a God who delights in wickedness;
evil may not dwell with you.
5 The boastful shall not stand before your eyes;
you hate all evildoers.
6 You destroy those who speak lies;
the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man. (ESV)

I have seen video after video posted that tries to tell me that the Lord will save everyone. It doesn't matter what they have done because the Lord's love is unconditional. That just flies in the face of what the Lord has revealed in these verse. When someone delights in wickedness and evil, they cannot dwell with the Lord. The Lord will not accept them until they turn from their evil. Our holy Lord has no association with wickedness.

Some people boast that they will get into heaven because they have lived a good life or maybe just enough above average to earn salvation. Other boasting is more subtle. They say they accepted Jesus as their Savior. They had the smarts or goodness in them to turn to Jesus. This is actually boasting because they are claiming a portion of the credit for salvation for themselves. Whatever part they claim is taking away from what the Lord does in salvation, which is really 100 percent. Ephesians 2 verses 8 and 9 clearly tell us that salvation is all the Lord's work so that we can't boast about contributing even 1 percent to our salvation. According to Psalm 5 verse 5, boasting is what evildoers do.

What will our holy Lord do to evil people? He will destroy them because he abhors all kinds of evil including lying and murder. That's the bad news. But the good news is that instead of punishing everyone because we are all evil, he punished the only one who has never done wrong, Jesus Christ. When we turn to Jesus to be saved from the Lord's wrath, our sins and their punishment is attributed to Jesus. In exchange, Jesus's perfectly pure life is attributed to us. If you want to know more about this, watch my video on Youtube, "The Gospel in 3 Minutes" It will tell you how to turn to Jesus for salvation from the Lord's wrath.

May God Bless you!