Let God Have the Final Say
Monday, July 21, 2014
Proverbs 20:22 says: Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the Lord, and He will deliver you.
Vengeance seems like a form of deliverance. Respond and make sure that the other person gets what’s coming to them. Then they won’t be able to do this to someone else.
Sounds reasonable. But that’s only if you’re acting on behalf of the state that is charged with keeping order. Vigilantes are celebrated, but not by those in law enforcement. It makes their job harder and breeds those who follow them.
The Lord says to let Him accomplish deliverance. He works through His own intervention and through those who are charged with sustaining peace in our communities.
It is hard to sit back and watch the atrocities that happen every day in our world. We want to make things better. We want to help. Yet, sometimes we do more harm than good, though we may not immediately see it.
A better way for us is to pray for those who are entrusted with the task to serve and protect, from the local to the national level. We’re not perfect, and those chosen for the role of protection are not perfect either. That is why we have a Savior to grant mercy in the times that we need it. The needs are ever-changing due to the greater dangers we face as our world falls further from the God of peace and protection. The ways needed to protect get more complicated, as those in leadership weigh the legality, morality, and assorted costs of implementation of new or different protocols. So let us pray for them and the difficult decisions that they must make to deter people from following the way of evil, no matter how it may be justified. The finality of things falls to God in the end. Amen.
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