Why Is Revenge For The Lord To Take?

Why Is Revenge for the Lord to Take?

Romans 12:19

Why is this such a difficult idea for Christians to do, let alone from the rest of the people in the world? This sounds so impossible for anyone to do, with all the constant cries for legal rights and lawsuits that are continually spreading about. Paul is stating that instead of us returning evil for evil or “getting even,” we are to let God manage it. Instead of giving the person that has wronged us what we think he or she deserves, we should befriend them. But how can we do this? By forgiveness.

Paul is stating in the last few verses of this chapter, (1) forgiveness might break a pattern of retribution and lead to shared compromise, (2) it might cause the adversary to feel embarrassed and alter his way of life, (3) paradoxically, returning evil for evil damages us similarly in as much as it harms our foe. Regardless of whether our enemy never atones, forgiving him will liberate us from a weighty load of resentment.

Paul is writing that we should decline to deliver retribution since God is far better at it than we are. One might say, Paul infers that delivering our own retribution might weaken God's chance to retaliate for us in His anger against the people who hurt us.

Paul quotes from Deuteronomy 32:35, “To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste,” to show that God has consistently proclaimed His aim to avenge the people who have been wronged by others. A longing for justice for us and those we care about is right. Paul essentially wants us to believe God's planning and ability to convey justice in His time and how He sees that it should be done.

How would we react to this thought? From one perspective, we may be worried that God will show leniency to the individuals who hurt us as opposed to giving them what they merit. He shows shown extraordinary benevolence to us, why not them? That is what God does, correct? Truly God executes justice for each wrongdoing, including our own. For those in Christ, God's indignation was spilled out on Jesus on the cross. Christ suffered for those transgressions. He encountered what we merited. The individuals who will not accept Jesus' death in their place for their sin will endure the repercussions for that transgression themselves forever.

Turn the Other Cheek?

Matthew 5:38-39, Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

This is probably one of the best rules we will discover in the Word of God, yet it is the most troublesome thing for God’s children to do. At the point when somebody hits us on one cheek, it is hard to forgive instead of lashing out. There was a man who was hit on his cheek, and he got up and turned his cheek. This time the first man hit him so hard, that he knocked down the second man. Then the second man, got up and beat the first man. Someone had asked him, “Why on earth did you do that? You turned your cheek; for what reason did you not leave it at that?” The second man said, “Indeed, the Bible says to turn your cheek, and I just had another cheek to turn. The Lord did not instruct me from that point onward, so I did what I figured I should do.”

This is exactly what many of us do, we retaliate in one way or another. We find it hard not to “return the favor.” The moment we put the matter into our own hands, and try to strike back even harder, we remove the problem from out of God’s hands. Thereby, we are not walking in faith as we should be. God is telling us that we are to walk by faith in Him and let Him oversee the situation for us. He can definitely do a better job at it than we can.

God's motivation for this law was mercy. It was given to judges and said, essentially, “Make the discipline fit the wrongdoing.” It was not an aide for individual retribution (Exodus 21:23-25; Leviticus 24:19-20; Deuteronomy 19:21). These laws were given to restrict retaliation and help the court dispense discipline that was neither too severe nor excessively indulgent. certain individuals, notwithstanding, were utilizing this expression to legitimize their grudge against others. Individuals actually attempt to pardon their demonstrations of vengeance by saying, "I was doing to him how he dealt with me."