{"id":14866,"date":"2021-09-01T08:58:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T12:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/preventingrace\/?p=14866"},"modified":"2021-09-01T08:58:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T12:58:20","slug":"what-a-great-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/preventingrace\/2021\/09\/01\/what-a-great-day\/","title":{"rendered":"What A Great Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/578\/2021\/09\/s-o-c-i-a-l-c-u-t-ww8hljWABIE-unsplash-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14870\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/578\/2021\/09\/s-o-c-i-a-l-c-u-t-ww8hljWABIE-unsplash-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/scotus-allows-texas-abortion-ban-sb-8_n_612e6044e4b04778bffd6f1f?d_id=2562246&amp;ncid_tag=tweetlnkushpmg00000016&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_campaign=us_politics\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">This is a great day<\/a>. This person to whom I have never been personally introduced is pretty unhappy, which, NGL, makes me pretty happy:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It's 12:01 CDT here in Texas. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SCOTUS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#SCOTUS<\/a> has not acted.<\/p>\n<p>That means <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SB8?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#SB8<\/a> \u2014 the most restrictive abortion law since Roe \u2014 is now in effect, and that virtually *all* abortions in Texas after the sixth week of pregnancy (when many women do not even *know* they're pregnant) are illegal.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/steve_vladeck\/status\/1432931482880856068?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We just finished Obadiah in our Tuesday Bible study (it only took two weeks), and in it discovered that God was super irritated with Edom for gloating \u201cover the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune.\u201d Judah was lying in ruin, and Edom was rubbing his hands in glee. This disturbed me for two reasons. First of all, that\u2019s not very nice, but second of all, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equip.org\/article\/the-spirituality-of-schadenfreude\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">what about the glimmering feelings of schadenfreude when the wicked don\u2019t prosper?<\/a> Is there ever a place to rejoice over the destruction of the ungodly? And how can you tell who is your enemy? Or if you are God\u2019s enemy? And doesn\u2019t God himself laugh his enemies to scorn? And isn\u2019t Jesus sometimes awfully sarcastic about the Pharisees? Surely it\u2019s ok to be happy <em>sometimes<\/em> about the destruction of one\u2019s enemies.<\/p>\n<p>Yes of course it is, our little class concluded, with many provisions. If you\u2019re feeling like gloating over the destruction of your enemies, you should stop and take a quick accounting of yourself and what it is you are gloating about. In Edom\u2019s case, they had rejected God themselves and were in no position to gloat about anything. They had been disobedient and wicked. Instead of repenting, though, they were happy when their neighbor, Judah, also fell under the judgment of God. Instead of seeing the caution for what it was\u2013a time to repent and obey the Lord\u2013they heaped up more trouble for themselves by closing their gates against Judean refugees and otherwise being awful.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re going to indulge in a little schadenfreude, in other words, you first must make certain that <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hn1VxaMEjRU\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">you are not the baddy<\/a>, which is hard, because you have done a lot of bad things. You have a lot of things to repent of, things that maybe no one has ever seen or known about. So you should start there before thinking about anything else. And from there I think loads and loads and loads of grief over all the babies who never got to see the light of day is the most appropriate feeling. We cannot possibly know what it has done to our collective souls to have so many people disappear from human society before we even got to know or see them. But then, you know what, a little bit of joy about all the babies who might be spared\u2013and the women who will not be invited to tread down a dark and perilous path\u2013is totally warranted. It may be, if we go on repenting and trying to obey the Lord, that he will have mercy. And that is so much better than being laughed to scorn by the God who holds the power of life in his hand.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@socialcut?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">S O C I A L . 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