Psalm 37:10

Psalm 37:10

The wicked will be no more

Having lived for a few years now, I can recall the comings and goings of many evil people, some known to me, others just names that became familiar for a while. In my childhood, in the nineteen fifties, the name of Adolph Hitler still hung like a bad odour over the land. Since then many brutal dictators have come and gone. Many men and women who had their moment of fame or infamy as they broke the rules and lived depraved lives that made headlines. There have been corrupt men and women who made fortunes abusing others and using influence and money to promote themselves. Then there were the politicians who persuaded massed crowds to follow them, the sportsmen and women who basked in their brief moments of glory, the entertainers, the actors, the celebrities; so many of them are no longer with us, their places filled by the next generation to think that the road to happiness and success is the way of money, fame and power. Every day, it seems, one of them falls off the conveyor belt of life while others jostle to take their place and begin their own journey of self-satisfaction. How evil the Satan is, he cons people into thinking his way and he beguiles them into lifestyles and mindsets that ultimately bring only misery and destruction. “A little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.” They enter a place of torment to await their judgement, to give an account of how they lived. We shall never hear of them again. The only ones who live on are those who have been granted eternal life – who are the chosen of the Lord; those who love righteousness and hate wickedness.  

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