Has your best friend said this to you? Don't worry. What goes around comes around. Mine has. It is more than karma, you know. David tells us this in Psalm 7: There are people who think up evil and plan trouble and tell lies. They dig a hole to trap others, but they will fall into it themselves. They will get themselves into trouble; the violence they cause will hurt only themselves.
I like the picture this paints. Let's call her Sally Jean. She is mean and spiteful. Why doesn't matter so much in this scenario, so don't ask. It is her great joy to destroy so she finds a road you might travel down today and goes before you with her shovel. As the sweat pours down her lovely face, she digs her heart out so that when you walk by unaware you will fall in and be trapped. She got you! She got you good! You did get tripped up by her evil scheme, but you did not fall in. You have a God who saved you from the pit. But Sally Jean, in her reeling backward from the surprise of your salvation, found herself falling deeply into the mess she made. Maybe not today, but unless she changes her heart, she will be eating the dirt of her own destruction.
God protects me like a shield (David loves this image). He saves those whose hearts are right. God judges by what is right, and God is always living in indignation, ready to punish the wicked. IF they do not change their lives, God will sharpen his sword; He will string His bow and take aim. I love that big IF from this psalm. He waits, our God, for the IF. He lives in indignation and why wouldn't He. Take a look at Sally Jean (her legs are waving in the air as she struggles in her pit) and wonder at her heart. She wanted you dead! She plans evil all the time. She deserves to get what she dishes out! But God will save her IF she will call out to Him. Chances are she won't, but I hope I am praying for her. Aren't you?
Jesus tells us not to judge others or we will be judged with the same measuring line. (Matthew 7:1) So what do we do with Sally Jean? We know what she does. We cannot help that. We are indignant, too, that she would treat others with such cruel intentions. But it is not ours to send her to hell for it. We are wiser about her, but we leave her punishment to Him who knows our hearts. Because if she changes, if she gets tired of the pit before God gets tired of her squirming, scheming life, she will be our sister for all eternity.
I like the picture this paints. Let's call her Sally Jean. She is mean and spiteful. Why doesn't matter so much in this scenario, so don't ask. It is her great joy to destroy so she finds a road you might travel down today and goes before you with her shovel. As the sweat pours down her lovely face, she digs her heart out so that when you walk by unaware you will fall in and be trapped. She got you! She got you good! You did get tripped up by her evil scheme, but you did not fall in. You have a God who saved you from the pit. But Sally Jean, in her reeling backward from the surprise of your salvation, found herself falling deeply into the mess she made. Maybe not today, but unless she changes her heart, she will be eating the dirt of her own destruction.
God protects me like a shield (David loves this image). He saves those whose hearts are right. God judges by what is right, and God is always living in indignation, ready to punish the wicked. IF they do not change their lives, God will sharpen his sword; He will string His bow and take aim. I love that big IF from this psalm. He waits, our God, for the IF. He lives in indignation and why wouldn't He. Take a look at Sally Jean (her legs are waving in the air as she struggles in her pit) and wonder at her heart. She wanted you dead! She plans evil all the time. She deserves to get what she dishes out! But God will save her IF she will call out to Him. Chances are she won't, but I hope I am praying for her. Aren't you?
Jesus tells us not to judge others or we will be judged with the same measuring line. (Matthew 7:1) So what do we do with Sally Jean? We know what she does. We cannot help that. We are indignant, too, that she would treat others with such cruel intentions. But it is not ours to send her to hell for it. We are wiser about her, but we leave her punishment to Him who knows our hearts. Because if she changes, if she gets tired of the pit before God gets tired of her squirming, scheming life, she will be our sister for all eternity.
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