“Let them be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it grows up and can’t even fill the hands of the reaper or the arms of the one who binds sheaves.” (vv. 6-7)

Sometimes it helps to be honest.

Because, honestly, we are rooting against some things.

We are rightly reluctant to pray condemnation or calamity on the godless. We’re much more pleased to pray for their rescue, for God’s compassion, and for the Gospel to turn them around. Our highest hope ought to be for their highest good, which only comes in Christ.

But here’s what we can pray, how we can root against those who are against the LORD:

We can pray that what they’ve worked for will come to nothing. We can pray that what they’ve sowed will wither before it prospers. We can pray that, for all the ways they hoped to fill their hands through unrighteous means, their hands will be empty.

I deeply desire their conversion, not their condemnation. But I also hope that their worthless worldliness—and their willful opposition—will indeed prove worthless.

— Tyler