May the Lord judge between you and me. And may the Lord avenge the wrongs you have done to me, but my hand will not touch you.
1 Samuel 24:12
Do you have those people that come at you? Maybe they talk about you behind your back? And out of nowhere you have an opportunity for revenge, an opportunity to pay them back for all the hurt and harm they’ve caused you. But what’s your move?
King Saul had been chasing after David, ready to kill him at any moment, but all of a sudden the tables turned and David now had the opportunity to make the move against king Saul. David cut a piece of Sauls robe, he was so close, but he couldn’t harm Saul. David knew Saul was anointed by God, and no matter how evil he was, David wouldn’t harm him. In fact, David felt so bad about even cutting his robe, he went out from hiding to tell Saul what he’d done.
Because of David‘s faithfulness there was a turning point, and King Saul recognized the good David did and acknowledged that he would one day be a king.
From our move, there can be a turning point in our story as well.
We have opportunities, like David’s, all the time. We could take revenge on someone that has hurt us, but if we are following after the Lord‘s heart, instead, we should do the unlikely. The unlikely move is to flip the world on its head and address the hurter with kindness.
We are all God’s children, created in His Likeness, but born into a sinful world. None of us are perfect, especially not me. But if we choose to look at each other as the Child of God that they are, not noticing the speck in their eye and ignoring the log in our own, we have the opportunity to make the right move.
We can move in the way of Jesus, The Way of Love and Kindness, Grace and Mercy. Showing Kindness to the hurter because it’s hurt people that hurt people.
When we have the opportunity to show Christ’s love to someone that has been ill bent on hurting us, it may be the biggest turning point in their lives. They may finally see the True Christ and have a change of heart.
It hard, REAL Hard, I know first hand. You don’t know how often I have to intentionally close my mouth. But if my heart is truly following after God I will try my HARDEST to make the right move for Him.
What’s your move?
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