Thursday October 03rd, 2024
« Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, And do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles »
17 Don’t rejoice when your enemies fall; don’t be happy when they stumble.
18For the Lord will be displeased with you and will turn His anger away from them.
God’s standards sometimes appear tough to live by, but when you adhere to them, you would soon discover that they ultimately work in your favor. One of such standards is in Matthew 5:44NKJV
« But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you »
He said you should love your enemies.
Believe me honestly, if you really have enemies and know them, you will agree with me that loving them would be a hard thing to do.
Nevertheless, you must love them.
In verse 45 NKJV of the same Matthew 5, the Lord said
« that you may be sons and daughters of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust »
In other words, if you don’t love your enemies, then you are not a child of God.
If you laugh at your enemies in their day of calamity, then you are not a child of God.
- That is why you cannot make fun of your enemies when things are going badly for them; it is an attribute of the devil.
Worse still is if you are cursing the fellow and praying that things go bad for him; you cannot do that and still call yourself a child of God. In Romans 12:14-15NKJV, the Bible says
« Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep »
That passage did not say rejoice when your enemy is weeping, or weep when only your friends are weeping.
Should there be days when your enemy is weeping, be there to comfort him or her.
Pray for them that their weeping will end soon.
Don’t be happy at the fall or calamity of someone else; that is not an attribute of a child of God.
The Bible reading says that if you rejoice at a person’s downfall, God would be displeased with you.
Don’t annoy God.
Application – Don’t laugh when your enemies fall.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Edited by Naomie Joseph
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