Well, can we pray that God would teach someone a lesson? Can we pray for God to disrupt and make their life hard all to get their attention.

It's an interesting question from Tiffany today.

Pastor John, hello and thank you for the podcast.

I know the Bible says to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us.

I want to pray for God to change their heart and ways, but sometimes I want to pray that

they are affected by their actions so that they will wake up and change their ways.

For example, at my job there's rampant negligence

that has been brought to my boss's attention multiple times.

This negligence could seriously harm or kill someone.

My boss doesn't like the confrontation and doesn't address the issue.

Is it wrong to want them to be shaken up by some event to change their ways, or is praying someone gets taught a lesson,

the same as I told you so.

Or is all of this un-Christian to begin with?

Psalm 73 comes to my mind and seems to check this kind of thinking.

Immediate justice isn't something that often happens,

and we shouldn't necessarily look for it to happen before Christ returns. but what do you think? Can we pray for

someone to be taught a lesson? I start with the conviction from Jesus in

Luke 628 that Christians are to bless those who curse you,

pray for those who abuse you.

So I think it is right that we should seek the good of our enemies when we

pray especially the ultimate good, their salvation.

So if we pray that they be taught a lesson,

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