Psalm 37:8

I was reading this Psalm last week at this verse that I have probably read 30 times in my life jumps off the page at me. It says this. "Cease from anger and forsake wrath; do not fret; it leads only to evildoing." The part that really spoke to me was that we should not fret because it leads only to evildoing. To fret mean to feel or express worry of discontent. When we worry, when we feel discontent we are not putting our hope and our trust in God's promises. We begin to fear what may happen in the future, whether it is 10 minutes or years away. And that is when it leads to evildoing. We act or react to this fear or discontent in a way that does not honor God. Anything that brings dishonor to God is evildoing. When we confess that Jesus Christ is our Savior, we are putting our trust in Him for eternity, but sometimes it is hard to trust that He has our best interest at heart right now. God does have your best interests at the core of what He does. We need to take this warning to not fret seriously. I think that as followers of Jesus we sometimes give different weight to the various commands of Jesus. Some like anger and wrath we say of course we should not do those things. But many of us deal with worry every day. In this passage they are all put together. If our hope is truly in God and our trust is in that He has our best in mind then we need to trust that God will do what is best for us. Don't fret, because it only leads to evildoing.