At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore (Ps. 16: 11)
“Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: And he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him” (Proverbs 26:27).
We have a saying in American English that says, “What goes around comes around.” Things have a way of evening out over time.
God is not mocked, and a man reaps what he sows (Gal. 6:7). If he is full of devices and stratagems, and he sets up a minefield with mines everywhere, he has greatly increased his chances of stepping on one of his own mines.
In this proverb, this truth is expressed in two ways. The first is that when a man digs a pit, he is preparing a trap that will at some point ensnare him. And when he is rolling a stone, with the intention of hurting another, the stone is going to kick back in some way, and roll back over him.
Or as Jesus put it, the person who lives by the sword will die by the sword (Matt. 26:52). The biter is sometimes bit.
The same principle is contained in the Lord’s warning about judging others. “For the judgment with which you judge, you shall be judged” (Matt. 7: 1-2).
The world is not governed by chance, but rather by a sovereign Father, whose very name is Justice. So the point is not that statistically good luck and bad luck will generally even out. It is not a matter of luck at all. God sees. He watches. He knows where you set your traps, and He is the one who makes you back into them.
God is the one who writes the story, and one of His favorite plot devices is called comeuppance. It is deeply satisfying for a reason.
