When an Enemy Stumbles
“Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown; lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.”Proverbs 24:17–18
A message arrives with news that someone who hurt us is having a hard time. Before we have chosen a response, we may feel a small rush of satisfaction. Perhaps now they will understand. Perhaps someone else will finally see what we saw. Moments like these can reveal how closely our desire for justice has become tangled...
