Turn About

Psalms 141:10 (KJV) Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.

(Proverbs 1 also read)

In the previous chapter, I noticed that David was concerned about the traps that people had set for him and was asking God to make sure that he did not fall into them.  Here we have the other side of that request.  We don’t know the timing of these two chapters.  We don’t know if David was thinking of the other when he wrote this.  We do know that he was praying for deliverance by God.

And how appropriate it is to pray that people would fall into the traps that they have planned for us?  I often wonder if that isn’t the way God works.  People plan evil.  The evil ends up consuming them.  How fitting.

So?  I don’t know that we should spend our time wishing evil on others, but it certainly is a reminder that we need to feather our nest with righteousness, and not with clever schemes.