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Thought for the Day : Proverbs 10:30

v.30   The righteous will never be uprooted, but the wicked will not remain in the land.

Stability and permanence. Because the believer is walking in the way of the Lord and that is a place of complete security and refuge, it also means they can be sure of not being uprooted and cast down. They can be secure in His love. What does uprooted mean? If you uproot a plant, it is cut off from it's proper environment and from its natural resources, and dies. The righteous (and we need to remind ourselves again and again that the Bible declares the Christian to be righteous ‘in Christ') believer therefore has the promise that they will never be separated from the love of God (see Rom 8:35 -39) and from the supply of life that He gives. Whatever happens in our lives, therefore, if we are believers then we have this promise: His love and His source of supply will never be removed from us.

As we've noted in previous verses, however, the wicked are opposed to God and by God and therefore they will not remain, they will be uprooted and cast away, or as Solomon describes it, they will not remain in the land. The land, for the Israelite, was all important, for it was the place of communion with God and the place of supply from God and also a place of security in God. The wicked, those who go their own way in opposition to God, may for a while appear to flourish, but that will not continue. The Lord may give them time and space in which to repent, but if they do not, at the pint He decides, all of that will be removed – they will be put out of the place of goodness and security.

Accepting each of these things is very much a matter of faith and if we struggle with them it's simply a sign of the days in which we live. Read through the thoughts above again, but know that God's word IS true, so live accordingly.