Sinners helping sinners

Beware rejoicing over someone else’s calamity, even your enemies’ misfortune. Edom rejoiced when Israel was sacked. They aided the Babylonians and mistreated those who managed to escape. In their false sense of security, they gloated in their relative power. (Ob 1:12-14) God held them accountable for their treatment of His people. The Jews were not innocent, but the Edomites were hardly in a position to judge. There is none good, no not one (Rom 3:12). Since nobody is without sin we should love our enemies and pray for them (Mat 5:44). Rather than exploit them, we should offer a cup of cold water in Jesus’ name (Mat 10:42).