But transgressors will be altogether destroyed;
The posterity of the wicked will be cut off.
Psalms 37:38

This reminder of the future for the wicked forces us to take our eyes off ourselves and put them onto God. We worry about our plans and our life and get fixated on our troubles. Well, God has plans and a life too so to say. He is at work in the world on projects that outspan our lifetime. In the end all accounts will be settled. Do not be in the red on that day. This is a reminder: transgressors, wicked, destroyed, cut off.

2 Pet 3:10-13

The following is taken directly from The Treasury of David by Spurgeon.

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EXPOSITION

But the transgressors shall be destroyed together. A common ruin awaits those who are joined in common rebellion.

The end of the wicked shall be cut of. Their time shall be shortened, their happiness shall be ended, their hopes for ever blasted, their execution hastened on. Their present is shortened by their sins; they shall not live out half their days. They have no future worth having, while the righteous count their future as their true heritage.

EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGS

The end of the wicked shall be cut off. The wicked in this world do easily run up without rub or interruption, many times with acclamations and applause, all the golden steps of honours and preferments; but upon the highest stair they find the most slippery standing, and the top of their earthly felicity is the most immediate and certain descent unto the greatest downfall. They are royally mounted here upon earth, and gallop swiftly over the fair and green plains of plenty and pleasures; but at the end of their race they are overturned horse and man, and tumbled headlong into the pit of destruction. They fairly glide over the sea of this world with full sail, with much calmness and serenity, and richly laden; but in the brightest sunshine, and when they least suspect it, they suddenly and without recovery, sink into the gulf of darkness and desolation. — Robert Bolton.