He Who Rolls a Stone Will Have It Roll Back on Him
Elias Bejjani/October 10/2025
To my friends and my enemies alike, to those near and far, I say this with love:
Life offers only two paths — good and evil — each carrying profound spiritual, human, and practical meanings. Every one of us must choose one of these two roads and bear full responsibility for that choice, remembering with complete awareness that no one, no matter how hard they try, can escape the consequences of their deeds, whether good or evil. For the justice of God never fails.
If you are a righteous and wise person, who fears God in word and deed, and believes in the Day of Judgment, then understand that evil brings nothing but destruction to its doer. True wisdom lies in self-control and in avoiding harm, cruelty, and injustice. For every word you speak and every act you commit will, sooner or later, return upon you.
But if your heart has grown hard, your vision dimmed, your sense of shame extinguished, your ears closed, and your conscience silenced — then remember this: the pain and harm you sow in the lives of others will one day take root in your own. Divine justice may seem delayed, but it never disappears.
The Holy Bible affirms this timeless truth in the Book of Proverbs (26:27): “Whoever digs a pit will fall into it; and he who rolls a stone, it will roll back on him.”
And our Lebanese folk wisdom echoes it beautifully: “Surely, you will drink from the same cup you made others drink from.”
How many arrogant, foolish, short-sighted, and vindictive people ignore this obvious truth! They conspire, plan evil, and rejoice in the suffering of others, imagining that cruelty grants them power or prestige — yet, in the end, they reap only ruin, emptiness, and the decay of their souls.
We all encounter such people in our daily lives — those who make harm their goal and hatred their tool, who wound those closest to them, whether family or friends. They have lost the grace of conscience and replaced compassion with resentment, and love with envy.
Let us pray that God may grant those who walk the paths of malice, slander, hatred, and blind envy the grace of repentance, humility, and awareness before it is too late. May they realize that whoever digs a pit for others will fall into it, whoever rolls a stone to harm another will have it roll back upon himself, and whoever serves others from a bitter cup will one day be forced to drink from it too.
As for those who do not fear God in their words, actions, and thoughts, let them know that their end will be in the flames of Hell that never die, amid the worms that never rest, and the torment that never ends.
Remember always: life is a divine scale of justice that never tilts.
What you sow today, you will reap tomorrow. What you use to hurt others will return upon you many times over. And the stone you roll against another will, one day, roll back upon you.
