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As David finished Psalm 37, he described two different kinds of people and what would happen to them.

First, he described the powerful. “I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found” (Psalm 37: 35-36).

The powerful are rooted in this world. They are like a tree that looks so strong and stable. Yet one day a storm comes and blows the tree over. It is then cut up for kindling and is gone. The most important part of a tree is its root system.

If we are rooted in this world, we have no security, for everything here is temporary. But if we are rooted in the Lord Jesus Christ, we have the permanence of eternity upon our life. Don’t envy the powerful. Don’t envy those whose names are blazoned abroad. Don’t worry about what happens to this crowd. God tells us what happens: They could not be found; they’re gone. But “he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.” (I John 2:17). That’s why it’s important to live for the Lord today.

Second, David described the perfect man or woman. “Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: For the end of that man is peace.” (Psalm 37:37).

The future of the powerful person is destruction. The future of the perfect person is peace. Now the word “perfect” doesn’t mean “sin-less.” Nobody is sinless. He’s talking here about the sincere person, the wholehearted person, the person who practices Matthew 6:33 “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you” When we are perfect in Christ, accepted in the Beloved One, then we have peace, we have strength and we have God’s salvation. “And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him” (Psalm 37:40).

Today, don’t walk by sight looking at the native green tree, Walk by faith. Be perfect in the Lord, and He’ll bless us.  How is your “root system”? What does Jeremiah 17:5-8 tell us about these two kinds of people? “Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.”