Do Not Fret, Pt 4

When you plant a vegetable garden you envision what it will look like in the end. You see rows of corn, beans, onions, tomatoes, etc. all evenly spaced out, ripe, and ready to harvest. Do you see any weeds? No. And you start planting knowing they will come. But it is the look of the end product that got you started and will keep you going. Oh, that it would be so with our lives.


from strategiesonline.net

The following is taken directly from Boice Expositional Commentaries by James Montgomery Boice.

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Look Ahead

The second answer to how we are to remain calm when the wicked prosper is part of what I have already been saying. We are to look ahead as well as looking up, because if we do, we will see that those who do evil only flourish for a time and then are thrown down, while the people of God are preserved in the meantime and rewarded at last. Verses 9-11 develop this second idea, saying,

For evil men will be cut off,

but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.

A little while, and the wicked will be no more;

though you look for them, they will not be found.

But the meek will inherit the land

and enjoy great peace (vv. 9-11).

It is hard for most of us to take the long view, because we are consumed by the present. But we need to do it if we are to grow in grace and begin to understand something of what God is doing in this world.

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