Righteousness and Wickedness have Recompense

Today’s Scripture Threshing for Tuesday, April 2 2019

Today’s Text: Isaiah 3:9-15

Key Verse: Isaiah 3:10–11 (ESV): “Tell the righteous that it shall be well with them,

for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds. Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him,

for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.”

Before us today are two parenthetical verses that assert future rewards for righteous living and punishment for wickedness. Sometimes we wonder if the wicked actually get paid in their own coin. We think the righteous people never get deserved or deserving good things. But the truth is, the recompense this scripture is telling us about are better understood in the spiritual sense, and not in the physical or mechanical sense.

So many wicked people seem to flourish physically. Yes, they appear to succeed in their enterprise. They live big and flaunt successes, but they are actually not blessed. Or, their blessings are cursed. They are robbed of genuine satisfaction and true happiness. Only good deeds ripen into true happiness. The ultimate end of all wrongdoings is misery.

Righteousness pictures a person whose desires is to do and live right according to the Word of God, or in pleasing to the Lord. The point of today’s scripture is, God wants this affirmed to both category of people so that they may be sure that nothing goes without it’s deserving reward. God wants us to get a correct impression of right or wrong living. If you are righteous, God smiles on you and set your feet in an endless succession of unmerited favor. You are graciously assured, that even if you are going through worst of times, or under a most trying circumstance, God takes a stand with you. But the way of the wicked are not so; they or their blessings are like chaff that the wind blows away (Psalms 1:4).

Quote for the Day: “Disaster pursues sinners, but prosperity is the reward of the righteous.” (King Lamuel, Proverbs 13:21)

Prayer: Dear Lord, it’s a fearful thing to fall under your ill-will. I do not desire a cursed blessing. Help me to live a righteous life and to do your will Lord. In Jesus name. Amen.

With all my Love and Prayer,

Simon Wale Olatunji, PhD

The Darling Bishop (DaBishop),

2321 S Belt Line Rd., Suite 144,

Grand Prairie TX 75051 USA

Email: reachingout@hopeforallnations.org

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