Psalm 73

Sometimes it may feel to me, just like it did to Asaph in Psalm 73, that it seems easier to not follow God when you see the unrighteous prospering.  It seems that they’re doing well, while we’re living lives in which following God seems very hard sometimes.  I finally understand what is meant by our temporary trials achieving for us an eternal glory that outweighs them all (2 Corinthians 4:17).  The choice is ours:

1.      Live a life following God with some hard times, but with the knowledge that God works everything out to the good of those who love him (Romans 8:28) and also with the knowledge that in the end after we leave this earth, we’ll have no more tears or death or mourning or pain or crying (Revelation 21:4) and we’ll spend eternity in the presence of God.

2.      Life a life not following God with some hard times, seeing no rhyme or reason behind those hard times and spending eternity apart from God and everything that is good, loving, and joyful.  To me, that spells out hard times for eternity.