Have you ever looked around and felt genuinely unsettled by what you saw?
Not just mildly bothered, but deeply troubled. The kind of troubled that makes a sincere believer quietly ask: Is any of this worth it?
You’re living right. You’re praying. You’re trying. And yet life doesn’t seem to be going particularly smoothly. Meanwhile, people who give no thought to God, who practice iniquity with zero shame — they seem fine. More than fine, actually. They look comfortable. Prosperous. Unbothered.
Asaph — the chief worship leader during King David’s reign and author of Psalm 73 — wrestled with this exact same tension thousands of years ago. “I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked,” he wrote. He was so shaken by what he saw around him that he admitted his feet had almost slipped. He was close to throwing in the towel entirely.
Until he went into the sanctuary of God.
And that’s where everything changed — not because his circumstances changed, but because his perspective did. In the presence of God, he understood what he couldn’t see from the outside: that the apparent prosperity of the wicked is temporary, that God holds the end of every story, and that the safest place a believer can be is not a place free of trouble — but a place of deep trust in God.
Thousands of years later, Limoblaze and Reggie Dartey captured that same journey in a song called “Rest II”
“The workers of iniquity
I do not envy their activity.
I do not fret at their ability.
Omo, their power less in this vicinity.”
The song doesn’t pretend the opposition isn’t real. It doesn’t ignore the fact that people come against God’s children. But it plants its feet firmly in one truth: in God’s presence, none of that has the final word.
“In you I find rest.
I will not be stressed.
Cause if trouble come my way
Na you be my defense.”
What Asaph found in the sanctuary and what “Rest II” points every listener toward is the same thing: that perspective changes everything.
You don’t need the wicked to fail in front of you to have peace. You need to go into the presence of God and remember who holds the end of every story.
