Friday! Proverbs!
Trouble pursues the sinner,
but the righteous are rewarded with good things.   
Proverbs 13:21 NIV
Yes that's so true...your sins will find you out, if you keep doing the wrong stuff, you'll get in trouble... and the good, well things always work out for them right?
Sometimes.
And sometimes the person who cheats, takes a short cut, rips us or someone else off is the one who prospers.
And its the good people, those who do the right thing, they're the ones who get sick, who can't get a job, whose business fails...
So if the good, the righteous, don't "win", then what is this about? Is it just a taster for when Jesus returns and all will be made new?
Or is it that the "reward" is really a heart thing? And "trouble" is a heart thing?
It's a troubled heart that pursues the sinner...that there's more to this life and one day a reckoning with the Creator...
And the righteous, those who are made right with God through faith, those who pursue God, they are rewarded with a renewed spirit, joy that transcends circumstances, peace that only comes from God, and a heart for others...
Maybe that's what this is about...
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