Divine Vindication

UV 816/10,000 Divine Vindication But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not: Psalm 35 v 15 Sometimes without us knowing there are people who plot and conspire against us. They devise plans to hurt us even though we have given them no cause for grievance, even though we have repaid evil with good. They gloat when they think we have been defeated, disturbed or overtaken by some bad news or calamity. The Lord says that just as they gather together and conspire against His children they will fall together. We must not turn bitter against such people who plot our hurt or fall. We must pray for their blessing and leave it to the judgement of the Lord. We need to behave as if they are our brother or friend. As Joseph told his brothers, " Am I in the place of God to judge you.You did it to harm me but God turned it to good." As they hate us without a cause and we stick to the righteous way of not playing God and judge to avenge ourselves, the Lord will turn their shortlived rejoicing into long term mourning and sorrow. The Lord will deliver them into our hands as He delivered Saul into the hands of David even as the former pursued him with deadly intent. As we rest in His agape love and not act in accordance with our natural instinct to take revenge, the Lord will rejoice over us and turn our defeat into victory, our sorrow into joy, our mourning into celebration. As Jesus said, this attitude towards those who deliberately assail us is the mark that we are truly the children of God and not of satan. The Lord always has the last word and that word is the Word of God,eternal,sovereign, absolute, infallible and unfailing. He often allows such powerful and evil persons and forces against us in order to reveal His glory, to redeem us, increase our faith and love for Him and to give us a testimony or evidence of God at work in our practical every day lives. Prateep V Philip