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Aristotle defined a Tragedy (in literature) as a situation in which someone who is good, perhaps even great, begins to overreach and put himself in the place of God as Judge. This once good person experiences what Aristotle calls “peripeteia,” which is the reversal of fortune.
There is an important warning in Psalms 7 – if we seek to take revenge, hold grudges, stay bitter towards others, we are in danger of evil recoiling back on us. We will do more harm to ourselves than we could ever do to our enemies.
“They dig a pit for others to fall into,
not knowing that they will be the very ones
who will fall into their own pit of failure.
For you, God, will see to it that every pit-digger
who works to trap and harm others
will be trapped and harmed by his own treachery.” (vs 15-16 TPT)
According to Bible scholar, Derek Kidner, “this verse says evil always comes home to roost. This principle operates unevenly in the material realm but inescapably in the realm of the spirit. In the terrible hardening and poisoning effect of a wrong attitude on the one who harbors it, far more disaster comes to him or her than any suffering inflicted on others.”
Righteousness and Justice are the foundation of God’s throne (Ps. 89:14). He will make everything right. Holding grudges and seeking to harm your enemy isn’t worth your peace. Let’s not be pit-diggers. Leave the justice to God.