Revenge is sweet?

“Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.” - Proverbs 20v22

“Revenge is sweet” is an old worldly saying. Chances are that more trouble is cause by revenge on all levels that anything else. On national levels retribution always escalates into a war. On a personal level revenge and recompensing of wrongs can divide families, friends, and churches. Revenge is not near as sweet as people make it out to be.

God has an entirely different response for His people – “Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing,” is His instruction from 1 Peter 3v9. Jesus gave the example of turning the other cheek when attacked. Here in Proverbs the instruction is not to try and recompense evil, but to let God sort is and we are promised that He will save us.

One thing stands in the way of this kind of response – our pride will not let us just leave it. We just can’t seem to trust God to work these things out for us. We think that we need to “sort them out” when we are wrongly done by.

If we really trust God we ought to be able to let Him take care of things for us. Lets show our faith by not trying to take care of things ourselves.