In Psalms, chapter thirty-seven, verses one through forty, is a psalm that is not a prayer but a series of proverbial expressions or instructions about godly wisdom. The theme concerns the believer’s attitude toward the success of the wicked and the hardship of righteous people. It teaches that the ungodly will eventually be cast down and lose all their acquired on earth, whereas the righteous who remain loyal to God will have His presence, help, and guidance on earth and inherit salvation and the promised land. According to the New Testament, the believer’s inheritance is “a new heaven and a new earth,” as in Revelation twenty-one, verse one.
The Chapter under the Blessings of the Righteous depicts how believers should conduct themselves during the favorable outcome of the wicked. Simultaneously, the believer’s endurance of personal adversity during times of need. The opening verse is the title, “Fret not thyself.” The truth is many religious people fall away from God and compromise because looking over their shoulders at how the ungodly are living and thriving in their lives. The people of God should only be watching the wicked when on a mission to be examples of Christ in pursuit of winning them over through salvation and not envious of things they have achieved.
Believers do not know what sacrifices these wicked people had to make to be in their position now: They could have been carnal, sinful, sacrificial, and ungodly, which is not reversible. On the other hand, for believers, the chapter has a message in several verses at the beginning of each verse, starting from two to eleven.
For they shall soon be cut down
Trust in the LORD,
Delight thyself
Commit thy way unto the LORD
And he shall bring forth
Rest in the LORD
Cease from anger
For evildoers shall be cut off
For yet a little while
But the meek shall inherit
The scriptures are the beginning of each from Psalms thirty-seven, verses two to eleven. To overcome “Fret not thyself” requires the believer to follow the word which means to obey it and be a doer. Can we do this?
The following verse is something to think about because why would the wicked do this if they have success going for them? “The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.”
The truth is successful ungodly people who plot against the godly have conditions to their success they follow: Similar to how the righteous have instructions to follow to remain in a relationship with God.
Other verses to highlight for Psalms thirty-seven: Verses thirteen, twenty-three, twenty-five, thirty-one, thirty-nine, and forty.