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Friday... It is so easy to do.


Friday... It is so easy to do.

The writer of Psalm 73 was looking around and he was complaining about the people around him and their successes. In verses 2-3 (NLT) he said, "But as for me, I almost lost my footing. My feet were slipping, and I was almost gone. For I envied the proud when I saw them prosper despite their wickedness."  He was having it seemed a pity party and a life is not fair and it was getting to him.

And that is easy to do, isn't it?

But then in verse 21-22 he shares, "Then I realized that my heart was bitter, and I was torn up inside. I was so foolish and ignorant - I must have seemed like a senseless animal to you." But it is so easy to do, isn't it?

He goes on and he seems to change direction and it is something that we may need to stop and also do. He stops and thinks. Verse 23 says, "Yet I still belong to you; you hold my right hand." There are so many times that we need to stop and really realize what we have. To stop looking at what other people have and evaluate and see what we really have.

Yes, I may not have what all these other people have, "Yet I still belong to you; you hold my right hand."

He goes on. Verses 24-26 says, "You guide me with your counsel, leading me to a glorious destiny. Whom have I in heaven but you? I desire you more than anything on earth. My health may fail, and my spirit may grow weak, but God remains the strength of my heart; he is mine forever."

He then says in verses 27-28, "Those who desert him will perish, for you destroy those who abandon you. But as for me, how good it is to be near God! I have made the Sovereign Lord my shelter, and I will tell everyone the wonderful things you do."

Instead of envying them we need have a burden for them and make sure that we don't desert God but share him with the lost and "tell everyone the wonderful things you do." We all really, really need him. 

Have you as a Christ follower gotten to the place where you are bitter and torn up on the inside because of what others have? It is easy to do.

But just remember. Verse 1 (MSG) says, "No doubt about it! God is good - good to good people, good to the good hearted." Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning 


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