day no. 16,096: eating the feast or eating crow?

“If you are loyal to anything and wish to preserve it, you must recognise that it has or might have enemies; and you must hope that the enemies will fall.” -- G.K. Chesterton

It is not wrong to hope that your enemies fail. In fact, it would be wrong to not hope for their failure. In order to love and be loyal to anything, you have to hate anything that would come against it.

Enemies are inescapable. It is not a matter of IF you will have enemies, but rather a matter of WHICH they will be. And it is the same for whoever or whatever you love. It will be opposed by something. And if you decide to love and be loyal to it, you must assume the enemies of your beloved.

Psalm 23:5

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.

The guest list may include your enemies, but the table does not. God differentiates between those invited to eat the feast and those invited to eat crow.

Psalm 54:5

Behold, God is my helper;

The Lord is the sustainer of my soul.

He will pay back the evil to my enemies;

Destroy them in Your faithfulness.

God's faithfulness requires Him to be opposed to His beloved's enemies. Our faithfulness to Him requires us to be opposed to our Beloved's enemies. You cannot be friendly with evil and friends with God.

James 4:4

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.