Evangelistic Evil

(Pro 4:16 KJV)  For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

I read this verse every month.  I think the idea is repeated another place in Proverbs.  It would do many Christians good to pay attention to it.  It isn’t just that evil exists.  The point is that there are people who are unhappy if they are not able to drag someone else down to their level.  Evil is evangelistic.

Keep that in mind when you watch commercials.  Review it when you listen to talking heads.  You might even consider it when you spend time with people you think are your friends.  The enemies of God are all in and are out to get you.  It is not your imagination.

So?  When I was teaching, students would come up and deliberately cough in my face hoping to make me sick.  In a way it was childish nonsense.  In a way it was a manifestation of this verse.  Eventually my immune system developed so that their coughing was in vain.  Build up your immunity to evil.