or be envious of those who do wrong; - Ps 37:1 NIV
do not fret when people succeed in their ways,
when they carry out their wicked schemes.
Refrain from anger and turn from wrath;
do not fret—it leads only to evil. - Ps. 37:7-8 NIV
I was young and now I am old,
yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken
or their children begging bread. - Ps. 37:25 NIV
Over and over again, David stresses the point that we are not to fret because of those who do evil . We can look around this world and see all the evil that exists and take to heart what he is saying. All of the wickedness of this world will someday cease. All the philandering, cheating, lying, suppression of the poor, all of the sins against man and sins against God will have to be accounted for. Even more chilling, David was one who had been beset by evil at the hand of Saul, one that he loved. But he knew that even that was not cause for worry.
David knew rightly, that the one thing that should concern us is our own sin. Instead of worrying about the sins of others, what they have done to us or the overall wickedness of any generation, we are to worry about our own transgressions. David knew what it meant to sin, he wallowed in the depths when his son by Bathsheba became sick unto death. That was the point in his life when he felt the most helpless. Not when he was hiding in a cave, being chased by Saul, but when he was shut in his own room hiding from the results of his own sin.
“But now, Lord, what do I look for?
My hope is in you.
Save me from all my transgressions; - Ps. 39:7-8 NIV
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