Read Proverbw 26:27

Read Proverbs 26:27  The verse for today gives two examples of people who do mischief that comes back on themselves.  When you do naughty things, people are naughty back to you.  When you are bad, you get punished for the bad things that you have done.  Our first example is of someone who digs a pit and covers it over with camouflaged sticks and grass in order to trap someone else as they innocently walk by.  But the Bible says that they themselves will forget and fall into the pit that they have dug!  When my friend, Brother Ron, was in high school, he and another friend wanted to do something funny the night before the last day of school.  So they got some cans of gasoline, sneaked onto the football field at night and poured the gasoline out in the grass in the shape of the year, 1984.  But when they got a match out to burn the 1984 in the grass, it was too dark and they had forgotten where the shapes of the numbers were.  When they lit the match and threw it down into the grass, the fire flamed up - all around them!  They were in the middle of the fire!  They had to jump over the fire to get out to safety.  What a dumb trick.  Almost as dumb as falling into a pit that you had dug yourself, or rolling a rock that rolled back onto yourself.  Things have a way of coming back to us - bad things that we do or good things that we do.