In an evil man’s wrongdoing is a trap, but the righteous sings and rejoices. Proverbs 29:6, TLV
Leap On! Ironically, today is a leap day. Together with our proverb, I am reminded of my brothers. When we were growing up, they took pleasure in tripping me. Teasing me. I wasn’t agile enough to leap over those obstacles. Of course, they haven’t attempted such foolishness in decades—they have after all grown up and we do love each other. But not everyone grows up.
Has anyone ever set a trap to cause you to trip or fall? Literally or figuratively?
A Trap was Set
Several years ago, while working to put hubby through school, someone spoke a terrible lie about me to my co-workers and worse, to my boss.
Fortunately, my boss didn’t believe the lie, or I would have been fired. Nevertheless, it was a tricky situation because the person who told the lie was the wife of one of my co-workers. She was beautiful, charming, and someone everyone liked.
For weeks I had to work with people who doubted my integrity and believed something very distasteful about me.
Eventually, the lie was revealed, and the perpetrator of that lie actually confessed to having spread it. The repercussions for her were severe. Something I never would have wished for her. After everything she had done to me, I felt sorry for her. I forgave her.
The trap she had set for me, the trap intended to cause me to fall
in front of my boss and peers, had sprung on her.
Hindsight?
As I read today’s passage this morning, I wish in hindsight I had trusted my Heavenly Father enough to be more at peace during that. To believe that at some point the truth would be revealed, knowing without a doubt that He would triumph. Still, I can assure you that once my integrity was no longer in question, I did a lot of rejoicing.
Plenty of Traps . . .
We’re in a season of wickedness. More and more there is antagonism toward holiness. My suspicion is there will be more traps set against us to try to trip up our testimony and faith in our Sovereign GOD. Temptations will abound in an attempt to cause us to fall.
“These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have shalom. In the world you will have trouble but take heart! I have overcome the world!” John 16:33, TLV
So, that means in these tribulations we can have peace—we can sing and rejoice. And in singing and rejoicing, we can have peace. And that is a good thing!
Think More About It
Has anyone ever tried to trip you up? How did you handle it?
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