"I have seen both of these: a righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long in his wickedness."
For a while I have been considering sin to be its own consequence. We reap what we sow. But as I have been reading Ecclesiastes and Jeremiah I am not sure that is the case. God clearly seems to bless those who follow him, and punish those who oppose him. At other times though, like here, he seems to just let things go and neither bless nor curse either party. We need to remember that God is in control, we should do what he commands regardless of the consequences. And just because we're sinning and perhaps getting away with it, doesn't mean that what we are doing is right.
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