Daily Lesson for March 6, 2014

Today's Daily Lesson is from Psalm 37 verses 1 and 2:

"1 Fret not yourself because of evildoers;

be not envious of wrongdoers!

2 For they will soon fade like the grass

and wither like the green herb."

Here is a truth we have to live with: this world is not always fair and a lot of times nice guys finish last while mean people finish first.

Here is another truth: a nice guy's character is tested when mean people finish first and he finishes behind. 

Psalm 37 has something to say to the nice guy who finishes behind mean people. Three times the Psalmist says, "Fret not." Fret not, because obsessing or fixating on having been cheated or done dirty will lead to anger and anger will ultimately lead to spite, vengeance and cheating. And before you know it the nice guy looks just like the mean one. 

The Psalmist says there is another way: the way of trust. This is a longer and more difficult way and may not ever get you across the finish line first. But it does guarantee that while many ahead of you are disqualified, you will finish the race and when you cross the line the judge will say, "Well done, good and faithful servant, you have fought the good fight and finished the race."

Jesus knew Psalm 37. He quoted it in the Sermon on the Mount when he said, "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth." Note the tense: "they shall". It's a promise. That promise may not yet be true for you. But there's really only one way to find out if it will ever become true, and that's to wait and see.

I hope you do.