Is revenge-seeking detrimental to your health and well-being? Think about this: Being possessed with revenge, a person has to be obsessed with anger, resentment, and hatred. Clutching desperately to these emotions, it’s impossible to love God while desiring to harm or destroy another person.
Hatred and vengeance produce separation and alienation from God and others. Think of attending worship service or Bible study absorbed with thoughts of revenge. It’s impossible to focus on what you’re hearing in ways that draw you closer to the heart of God. Hatred and revenge are like rust or acid that eats away at whatever it touches.
2 Peter 2:13 teaches that those who harm others will be the recipient of harm, including God’s judgment. There is a better way, and that is to turn over the need for revenge to God who is able to redeem that person. God’s desire is to redeem rather than punish. That’s what he will do for you.
For you, O Lord, are good, and ready to forgive [our
sins, sending them away, completely letting them go forever and ever], and abundant
in lovingkindness and overflowing in mercy to all those who call upon you.
~Psalm 86:5 Amplified Bible
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