“Is Doing Right Still Worth It When Wrong Seems to Pay?” November 1
Have you ever looked around and wondered whether doing right really matters?
You try to live with integrity.
You say no to things others freely enjoy.
You make choices based on what pleases God rather than what seems easiest or most rewarding.
And then you watch people who ignore God prosper.
They get ahead.
They seem happy.
They enjoy the very things you have chosen to deny yourself.
Some even mock those who try to live faithfully.
And nothing seems to happen to them.
If you’ve ever thought, What is the point? you’re not the first.
The writer of Psalm 73 looked at the prosperity of the wicked and admitted that he nearly stumbled.
For a moment, he wondered whether keeping his heart clean had been worth it.
But then something changed.
He stopped looking only at what was happening now and began looking at where everything was ultimately headed.
That changed the entire picture.
Proverbs 28.6 says:
“Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than one perverse in his ways, though he be rich.”
But why is that true when life doesn’t always seem to prove it?
Today we’ll look at why sin can appear to pay in the short term, why prosperity is a poor measure of God’s approval, and why an eternal perspective changes the way we see faithfulness, suffering, success, and envy.
