Posted on 01/01/2021 11:45:05 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it" (Proverbs 2:21-22).
People are really shallow with the Bible sometimes, and they'll say, “Well, the Bible says that there is none good, no, not one.” So, what are you going to take from that then? Are you going to walk around skeptical of everything and everybody absolutely all the time? That’s not what the Bible teaches. Over in Titus chapter 1 and verse 8 with regard to a Bishop, one of the characteristics is that he is “a lover of good men.” Do you know what good Christian men ought to appreciate? Good men.
What is too bad is when people get to the point where they are too busy trying to see all the bad in good man, and trying to tear down the good men, rather than to appreciate where that man would be heading if he had not found Christ; and had not walked with Christ all these years. We need to be able to appreciate the good in a man and not just see the bad in a man, or woman.
“But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.”
There is some real dispensational stuff here, and you can apply it that way. There's no question about the doctrine and there's no question about the prophecy in the Old Testament when the Lord carried those people into the land; if somebody that did right the Lord did prosper them, and a lot of times they're righteousness and uprightness translated eventually into their sheep being “prolific” and their crops producing abundantly and so on and so forth.
There is coming yet another day like that in Israel where if you do right brother, that man will have it paid back to him, and not just in heaven, but here on earth.
But, devotionally speaking, “for the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it,” there are positive results that come from doing the right thing and it's not always about money and it's not always about what you own it's not always about your car never breaking down in the middle of the winter; but there are other things that are positive about it.
“But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.”
It’s a wonderful thing to live in this dispensation. It is a shame that so many will not study their Bibles with this in mind. We walk by faith and not by sight, and if you ever think that that's bad; just look around at all the wicked, wretched people in this world that still haven't gotten it in the neck. Someone might say, “Well, that's not good well.” It is if you are wicked and just don't recognize it. Maybe you would have gotten it in the neck.
This is a parenthesis in God's time frame, and there is yet another day coming where if you're right God will bless you, and if you're wrong God will judge you, and it can come down harsh.
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