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Sunday Psalms:

Praise the Lord! 
How joyful are those who fear the Lord and delight in obeying his commands. 
Their children will be successful everywhere; an entire generation of godly people will be blessed.
They themselves will be wealthy, and their good deeds will last forever.
...
The wicked will see this and be infuriated. 
They will grind their teeth in anger; 
they will slink away, their hopes thwarted.
Psalms 112:1-3,10 NLT
I've read the first part of this song as some kind of promise that if you just do what's right EVERYTHING will work out. 
But we all know that is not true. 
Know matter how good we are, how much we study God's word, how closely we align ourselves with His truth, awful things can, and do, happen.
Businesses fail, relationships fail, health fails, people make hurtful choices. We get tired, worn out, worn down.
And at the end of this song the writer gives some context:
When good people thrive and flourish, when God's people are going OK, there are those who want to see the opposite.
"The wicked" grind their teeth when "those who fear the Lord" are doing well.
The longer I've sat with this it seems less about the world of things, and more about a spiritual thing.
We are spiritual beings, embodied souls. 
When we trust God, choose to follow him these are choices made by spiritual beings and our enemy hates that. 
All we have to do is love.
Love people.
Love God.
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