Showing posts with label Retaliate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Retaliate. Show all posts

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Retaliate...

Webster says it is to return like for like.

We all know the golden rule, ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you’. (Mt. 7:12)

Often, we choose to understand it as ‘Whatever others do to me, that’s what I can do to them’.

We want to justify our own desire to retaliate.

Life gets difficult. Relationships get complicated. People are people…with sin natures. We live in a fallen world, with fallen people. Some of them redeemed, some not. People don’t always do the right thing.

I don’t always do the right thing.

But I am not given freedom to retaliate. If we were, where would it end?

It can end with me. Right here. Right now.

I continue to seek, to listen and to hear, then follow the Holy Spirit that is within. I am assured that He is there…“God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." (Heb. 13:5, Joshua 1:5)



“ Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.”(Rom.8:5)


I resolutely and repeatedly set my mind on Jesus, moment by moment choosing to believe His way and choosing to obey.

Constantly, I am on the battlefield of flesh vs. spirit.