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@ Dikaios1517
2025-03-12 22:40:37
The prosperity of the wicked is short-lived, leading to eternal destruction. Meanwhile the toil of the just and upright is equally temporal, while their joy and rest is eternal.
Or, as the psalmist puts it:
"Truly you set them (the wicked) in slippery places;
you make them fall to ruin.
How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors."
Meanwhile,
"Whom have I in heaven but you?
And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.
My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."
Now, this is small comfort to those who lack faith, and it is utterly useless if our faith proves false. Or as the Apostle Paul puts it:
"If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied."
In that case, you may as well just join in with the wicked. Again the Apostle Paul, later in the same passage:
"If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."