When The Robbers Get Robbed
In a bizzarre twist of irony, three Colorado armed robbers were thwarted in their effort to rob a check cashing store. According to a Fox News report,
The masked trio went into the Hi Lo Check Cashing in the Denver suburb of Commerce City just before 11 a.m., the Commerce City Police Department said Tuesday.
During the heist, a female thief "seized the opportunity to do what criminals do – steal what was very likely already a stolen vehicle," a Tuesday police Facebook post said.
Forced to flee on foot, two of the would-be theives were soon apprehended. Police are confident the third will soon be arrested.
Some might call it Karma, others might call it comeuppance, but whatever you call it you can be sure, one way or another, your sin will be found out, and thus you will sow what you reap, just like these foolish robbers.
"... behold, you have sinned against the LORD, and be sure your sin will find you out" (Numbers 32:23, ESV).
"Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life" (Galatians 6:7-8, ESV).
How Do You Want Your Bread Buttered?
There is an old story about two neighbors, a baker and a farmer. The baker began to be suspicious of the farmer, wondering if he wasn't getting his money's worth when he paid for a pound of butter. He weighed the farmer's butter on several occasions, and the butter consistently weighed less than a full pound. Enraged, he had him arrested for fraud.
The judge asked the farmer at the trial, "I presume you have scales?"
"Yes, of course, Your Honor," the farmer replied.
"And I presume you use standard weights to measure your goods?” the judge asked.
“Yes, generally,” said the farmer. “But I don’t use them when serving the baker,” replied the farmer.
"Then how do you hope to weigh accurately the butter you sell to your neighbor?" the judge asked.
"That's easy," the farmer said. "When the baker began to buy butter from me, I decided to buy my bread from him. I've been using his one-pound loaves to balance my scales when I portion out his butter.
Nothing could be fairer than to be judged in accordance with how we judge others. So, if you would like to avoid a stricter judgment, keep your standard of judging others as low as possible.
"For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." (Matthew 7:2).
The Karma Rule of Time
The Karma Principal of Time:
When a bird is alive, it eats ants.
When a bird is dead, the ants eat the bird.
One tree makes a million match sticks.
It only takes one match to burn down a million trees.
You may be powerful today, but time is more powerful than you are.
Don't devalue or hurt anyone in life--time and circumstances can change at any moment, making the master the slave.
Some might call this karma, some might call it the law of comeuppance. Christians call it the Golden Rule:
"So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets" (Matthew 7:12, cf Luke 6:31).