For July 2, 2026
Sure Of Foot by Greg Holmes, D.MIN – Director of Missions serving 17 churches
THE PSALMIST plaintively says, “I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.” (Psa. 73:3) When you and I look around at the circumstances of the world of people around us, we may be frequented by the same somber thoughts. There has and will always be, in this world, an inequality of opportunity. The rich do get richer, and more arrogant in their self-established pride. The poor do remain poor, and poverty breeds a disconsolate and oft-times generational prevailing dark hopelessness. But the Psalmist is looking beyond these normative circumstances at an issue that disturbs him far more deeply, and this brings him querulously into a need to understand God’s motivations—a dangerous thought indeed. He thinks, “Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.” (Psa. 73:1) How is it, then, that the wicked prosper, while the good suffer?