{"id":4199,"date":"2012-10-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/i-tried-to-understand-why-the-wicked-prosper-but-what-a-difficult-task-it-is-then-i-went-into-your-sanctuary-o-god-and-i-finally-understood-the-destiny-of-the-wicked-psalm-7316-17\/"},"modified":"2012-10-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T00:00:00","slug":"i-tried-to-understand-why-the-wicked-prosper-but-what-a-difficult-task-it-is-then-i-went-into-your-sanctuary-o-god-and-i-finally-understood-the-destiny-of-the-wicked-psalm-7316-17","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/i-tried-to-understand-why-the-wicked-prosper-but-what-a-difficult-task-it-is-then-i-went-into-your-sanctuary-o-god-and-i-finally-understood-the-destiny-of-the-wicked-psalm-7316-17","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I tried to understand why the wicked prosper. But what a difficult task it is! Then I went into your sanctuary, O God, and I finally understood the destiny of the wicked&#8221; (Psalm 73:16-17)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We sometimes struggle with questions of fairness. We ask,&#8221;Why do good people suffer, while bad people prosper?&#8221; Our question implies that God isn&#8217;t fair. That He has somehow taken His eye off the ball and allowed injustice to happen. We suffer from a limited perspective. We don&#8217;t see how things will end. But God does. Trust Him with judgment. He hasn&#8217;t missed a thing. Ultimately, no one will doubt His justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We sometimes struggle with questions of fairness. We ask,&#8221;Why do good people suffer, while bad people prosper?&#8221; Our question implies that God isn&#8217;t fair. That He has somehow taken His eye off the ball and allowed injustice to happen. We suffer from a limited perspective. We don&#8217;t see how things will end. But God does. Trust Him with judgment. He hasn&#8217;t missed a thing. Ultimately, no one will doubt His justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1286],"scripture-chapter":[1406],"oyb_day":[1801],"location":[],"class_list":["post-4199","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-psalms","scripture-chapter-1406","oyb_day-october-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/4199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oyb"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4199"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=4199"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=4199"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=4199"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=4199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}