Thoughts for another day
July 21, 2010
Today's verse: Eccl. 10:8a. He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)
In the course of our lives, we take on different natures and come across different people, some we like; some we don’t. Then our nature, bred by us, takes control and provides us occasions to start hating somebody to the extent we want to destroy them. This nature though evil, does not even startle us at the evil in it, rather impels us to formulate strategies to create situations that will result in the downfall of the subject of our hatred. The downfall could also mean death and/ or destruction.
A good example of this can be found in the Book of Esther in the Bible. King Ahasuerus the Persian had promoted Haman the Agagite to a very powerful position in his kingdom and this went into Haman’s head. He expected everybody to bow to him and do him homage; and the king’s servants did, except Mordecai the Jew for whom homage was to be paid only to the God of Israel. This infuriated Haman so much that as the story moves, we are told that he erected a gallows about eighty feet high planning to hang Mordecai on it. Later we learn that he himself was hanged on it at the king’s command. Haman would have never expected this when he arranged the gallows for Mordecai, yet as events unfolded, he took Mordecai’s place.
There is a great evil in planning ‘evil’ for others. I’ve seen it myself how people who plot others’ downfall, themselves wither away. There’s a way of God which destroys the designers and perpetrators of evil for others. Our Scripture affirms the same and in wisdom the author of Ecclesiastes says very simply, that those who dig a grave for others will themselves fall into it. I’d exhort you never, no matter how much you hate a person, no matter how great he be your enemy, never plot their destruction… it may turn out to be your own.
July 21, 2010
Today's verse: Eccl. 10:8a. He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)
In the course of our lives, we take on different natures and come across different people, some we like; some we don’t. Then our nature, bred by us, takes control and provides us occasions to start hating somebody to the extent we want to destroy them. This nature though evil, does not even startle us at the evil in it, rather impels us to formulate strategies to create situations that will result in the downfall of the subject of our hatred. The downfall could also mean death and/ or destruction.
A good example of this can be found in the Book of Esther in the Bible. King Ahasuerus the Persian had promoted Haman the Agagite to a very powerful position in his kingdom and this went into Haman’s head. He expected everybody to bow to him and do him homage; and the king’s servants did, except Mordecai the Jew for whom homage was to be paid only to the God of Israel. This infuriated Haman so much that as the story moves, we are told that he erected a gallows about eighty feet high planning to hang Mordecai on it. Later we learn that he himself was hanged on it at the king’s command. Haman would have never expected this when he arranged the gallows for Mordecai, yet as events unfolded, he took Mordecai’s place.
There is a great evil in planning ‘evil’ for others. I’ve seen it myself how people who plot others’ downfall, themselves wither away. There’s a way of God which destroys the designers and perpetrators of evil for others. Our Scripture affirms the same and in wisdom the author of Ecclesiastes says very simply, that those who dig a grave for others will themselves fall into it. I’d exhort you never, no matter how much you hate a person, no matter how great he be your enemy, never plot their destruction… it may turn out to be your own.
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