What Comes Around

Scripture Esth 9:25 but when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letter that this wicked plot which Haman had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Observation: How often has that happened to you. You think you’re getting away with something and bam it comes back to haunt you. It’s happened to me more than once. I’ve always had a vengeful spirit, if someone does something wrong to me or even if I think they have I want revenge, instead of forgiveness. I would plot something against them or hope something terrible would happen to them or say something about them and sure enough my words would return to me or my actions would be found out and now I was the bad guy and in reality I was. God tells us over and over to forgive and that judgment is His and these instances are just a reminder that they are. There is nothing that others can do to us that God doesn’t know about and instead of justifying ourselves we should be justifying God by our actions.

Application: I have an evil heart. I can’t think without some negative thought or wicked things comes up. I need to work harder when I find myself drifting off to thoughts that don’t honor God. I need to be in prayer and when I find myself alone in thought I need to take them to God and think of things that are true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent and praiseworthy as my Lord calls me to do.

Prayer: Dear Lord help me please. Give me a forgiving and loving spirit and take all this junk out of my heart and mind. Make me like Jesus whose heart is pure. I love you my Lord and want to honor you all the days of my life.