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Excerpted from: Psalm Genres (Part Seven): Trust

Here he is talking to the people again. Do not compare yourself to those people out there. Essentially, he is talking about his enemies, but he says this is actually broader than that. This is all uncalled humanity that act like this. And he is taking, well, Solomon probably took the cue from him, but this is kind of Solomonic language about vanity and vapor. He says, Those people out there, they are nothing. Jesus called them dead. This is kind of the same thought. God has not begun working with them yet and so they do not mean as much. They mean actually very little to God compared to what He thinks of us and what He is doing with us. Their time will come in the resurrection. But right now, those people out there do not matter.

I do not want you to take this too far, but it is this sense that God is not working with them, He is working with you, so God's eyes are on you far more than His eyes are on them. To God, they do not mean very much right now, but they will in time.

So He is saying they are living lives of futility because they do not have a covenant with God. They do not have a relationship with God. So in the imagery, they are a puff of air, they are a vapor, they are a smoke. Or as, as Solomon said, they are vanity. The ways which he describes here as oppression and robbery and seeking out money, those things do not work. They are not good saviors. They they fail in the end. So he says do not even think about those sorts of things because they will not save you. Even if you have billions of dollars, in the end they cannot save you. They might make your life a little bit more comfortable but in the end, all the the most wonderful things, the things that we should be seeking are from God or come through God. So do not trust in those things. Trust in God. It is always coming back around to that. Trust in God. He is the only one that can really save you, help you, give you the things, the blessings that you desire.

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