Here's an email i wrote to LF this afternoon:
It's ironic how the people who are hurt will need a long time to slowly "forget" the incident (if it can really be forgotten), and yet the people who hurt the others will just conveniently and quickly forget about it and carry on with their lives, as if all are fine and everything is behind them already.
Sometimes just feel silly... it is indeed everything is behind us already, but we are clinging on to something that we should have let go of... for no reason at all.
Humans are frail.
Indeed we are, weak in the mind, corrupted in the soul and evil in nature.
A lot of times, the vengeful nature of our human side would tell us to take justice into our own hands, telling ourselves that we have been treated unjustly, we have been wronged, and we want vindication.
Yet, if we can clam down and think things through, we should realise that there should always be only one reaction or response to the situations, which is in the manner that would please God.
Again, He spoke to me through the past Sunday sermon:
Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing. ~ 1 Peter 3:9
Yes, for those who have been wronged and are impelled to act in a vindictive manner, remember this:
Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," says the Lord. ~ Romans 12:17-19
We just do our part and leave the rest to the Almighty.
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