Trust God To Handle It
Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," saids the Lord.
-- Romans 12:19
Who do you want to hurt today? Who does your heart want to lash out at for the pain they have caused you? Who does your mind have staring in the role of evil person who gets his just reward? Yeah, we all have someone we'd like to see suffer.
That's the way we humans are. When we're hurt, we instinctively want to hurt the person responsible. Or at least the person we blame. Sometimes we're responsible if for no other reason than we believed the lies that led us astray.
But retaliation is absolutely the worst thing we can do. It only produces a momentary gladness and can result in more heartache and wasted time as you focus on reliving the betrayal. I'm not saying that it's okay. It's not. I'm also not suggesting that you forget and, then, let it happen again. What I am saying is let it go and let God have it. Let Him avenge.
Because He will. Sometimes we get so caught up in the grand view of it all that we forget something really basic: We are God's children. You and me. God will repay evil done to His kids. He will. That's a certainty.
Hanging on to wrongs leaves us with a bitterness that can harden our hearts and cause us to miss so many blessings. By trusting God, we can get past all that and move on. God has so many blessings planned for us. Don't miss the future because you clung too tightly to the past. Give it to God, then let it go.
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