Justice Will Be Done

[ronscarpa]

Justice Will Be Done

A WORD for Tuesday - 10/06/2015 - John Piper

 

 

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” (Romans 12:19) 

 

All of you have been wronged at one time or another. Most of you, probably, have been wronged seriously by someone who has never apologized or done anything sufficient to make it right.

 

And one of the deep hindrances to your letting that hurt and bitterness go is the conviction — the justified conviction — that justice should be done, that the fabric of the universe will unravel if people can just get away with horrible wrongs and deceive everyone.

 

That is one of the hindrances to forgiveness and letting grudges go. It’s not the only one. We have our own sin to deal with. But it is a real one.

We feel that just to let it go would be to admit that justice simply won’t be done. And we can’t do it.

 

 

So we hold on to anger, and play the story over and over again with the feelings: It shouldn’t have happened; it shouldn’t have happened; it was wrong; it was wrong. How can he be so happy now when I am so miserable? It is so wrong. It is so wrong!

 

This word in Romans 12:19 is given to you by God to lift that burden from you.

 

“Never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God.” What does this mean for you?

 

Laying down the burden of anger, laying down the practice of nursing your hurt with feelings of being wronged — laying that down — does not mean there was no great wrong against you.

 

It does not mean there is no justice. It does not mean you will not be vindicated. It does not mean they just got away with it. No.

 

It means, when you lay down the burden of vengeance, God will pick it up.

 

This is not a subtle way of getting revenge. This is a way of giving vengeance to the one to whom it belongs.

 

It is taking a deep breath, perhaps for the first time in decades, and feeling like now at last you may be free to love.

[MyLadiesDaddy]

Thank God it will be my friend. Because I'm about to explode.LOL

Figuratively speaking that is. Nowadays you gotta be careful far too many demonic control people out there.

It breaks my heart when I see how many simply refuse to even consider the things that are righteous in favor of their own ability.

While I'm not against using deadly force to protect my family and those that I care about, I am highly against massing a force against an evil without the power of God flowing within me and through me and around me.

Those who think they can do so without God at their side really are lambs to the slaughter. For they have no clue what it is they fight against.

We fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers against the spiritual wickedness of this world. Wake up people.