822) Sometimes it can seem like the “bad people” around us often get away with things, but when they don’t, how do you respond? I would be lying if I said that I don’t feel a certain satisfaction when someone who has treated me poorly gets knocked down a notch or two, but this isn’t how God views the consequences of the bad choices people make.

Ezekiel 33:11 tells us that God takes no pleasure in the demise of the wicked and we should, for no other reason, model our behavior after His. After all, God does not feel any satisfaction when we reap the consequences of our own actions.