A WORD TO THE WISE: Proverbs 26: 27

Proverbs 26: 27     Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and he who rolls a stone will have it roll back on him.

David focused on being a good soldier.  Saul focused on how much better than him David was at being a soldier.  Saul went nuts, lost God’s favor, got involved in witchcraft, and killed himself after losing his son in a battle he never should have fought.   David became king and the ancestor of Jesus Christ.  David kept progressing while Saul fell into his own trap.

David pursued success in terms of how he made himself better at what he did.   Saul thought success could only come by sabotaging the other man’s performance.

Sabotage requires  effort, energy, and commitment.  That’s energy, effort, & commitment that could have made you better at what you do--- but don’t because they’re all concentrated on the other dude.   That’s energy, effort, & commitment that might have improved your chances of success but don’t because they’re aimed only at hindering the other sister’s chances. 

If you choose sabotage then you will never be better than you are. 

See, you can’t possibly control every moment of your rival’s day.  You might mess up their project at work, but you can’t stop them from leaving the office and learning about the job at home.  You might tell lies that make them look bad at lunch but you can’t stop them from living with such dignity the rest of the time that no one cares what you say.   Despite all of your scheming efforts, your enemy might still be progressing forward while you go nowhere.

Basically sabotage subtracts your energy and sends it somewhere else, somewhere that doesn’t benefit you and isn’t guaranteed to harm the one you’re trying to sabotage. 

Do the math.  Sabotage makes you a lesser person.

Now, do the physics. 

When you pour energy into something, you build up potential energy----like pumping pressurized gas into a tank.   As you pour more and more energy into sabotage, the danger become greater while you become weaker (and more vulnerable to the very dangerous situation you’ve created).  

That’s why hateful people keep checking on their own trap.  They keep asking if you clicked on the corrupted file, how you did with the sabotaged presentation, if you talked to the spouse or girlfriend they’d lied to about you, if you want a drink of the water they’d poisoned.    Their spiritual weakness actually pulls them closer to their own trap.

When the trap springs, the saboteur is just as/ more likely to get hurt as the person they tried to harm. 

The more you use sabotage, the weaker you become, and the more likely/ the more deeply your traps will trap you.

Now, if you add the promises of God (Isaiah 54: 17 for example) to the equations then you have a situation in which a trap is set & energized, but the target is protected by God.  Well, when the energy of the trap is released it all rebounds back onto the one who set it all up in the first place.

Forget about trying to make them worse.  Focus on making you better. 

Sabotage isn’t going to work out the way you think. 

Read this article: http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/husband-wife-die-after-falling-into-pit-on-ishikawa-beach

Husband, wife die after falling into pit on Ishikawa beach

----- Anderson T. Graves II

Rev. Anderson T. Graves II is the pastor of Hall Memorial CME Church

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