For the righteous good things will come. It may not be an immediate inheritance, but it will come. King David wrote of how the wicked are prospering and how the righteous are suffering. This is a very true statement. You have to remember that the earth incurred a curse after the fall of man. This world has been tainted by the fall of man. But in the end, if we were to skip to the end of the book, we would find the the righteous prevail.
"The [consistently] righteous shall never be removed, but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth eventually." Proverbs 10:30, Amplified
The righteous shall not be removed removed because our foundation is on Jesus Christ. He is the truest foundation for us to built upon, the firmest rock. The Word was before this world and will exist long after this world has ceased to exist. And there will be a time when the wicked will be removed from the earth. The Bible tells us about a 1,000 year period where the earth is restored to her original state, before the fall. 1,000 years the Lord will reign upon this earth and after that time, He will destroy it and create a new heaven and a new earth. Until then, we wait patiently on the Lord and remain consistently righteous.
"The mouth of the righteous [those harmonious with God] brings forth skillful and godly Wisdom, but the perverse tongue shall be cut down [like a barren and rotten tree]." Proverbs 10:31, Amplified
We are told in the Sermon on the Mount that a tree will be known by its fruit. A tree that is barren of rotten is good for nothing, not even for shade. It must be cut down because all it is doing is leeching nutrients from the soil around it. This bad tree takes what it cannot use and leaves less for the better trees to survive on. It is a wonderful thing, though, that we have a Ground's Keeper who will take care of His orchard. Our Master knows what trees are bad and which are good. But if we read Matthew 13, one of the Kingdom Parables is about the wheat and the tares. An enemy came over night and sowed tares in our Master's wheat field. When His angels found this out they told the Master. He decided to wait for harvest to separate the two for fear of destroying the good with the bad. My friends, out time is coming.
"The lips of the [uncompromisingly] righteous know [and therefore utter] what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked knows [and therefore speaks only] what is obstinately willful and contrary." Proverbs 10:32, Amplified
The fruit of either tree is evident. As righteous Christians, we know what is right and true and therefore our speech should signify that. I know that this is not always the case. Look at king David. He committed adultery and then killed his lover's husband and he was still called a man after God's own heart. Our fruit is a testimony of our heart. If it be bitter and rotten, then the heart of the tree is bitter and rotten.
It is high time for us all to do a heart check. The easiest way is to check the fruit on the tree. Is it good? Is is wholesome? Is it nutritious? Our lips should know and therefore utter one truth, Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
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