Vengeance

 Greetings to you all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

     Romans 12:19 says, “ Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.” 

     I don’t like bugs, snakes, flies, mosquitos or spiders.  My idea of camping is in an RV wit h TV, air conditioning, a comfortable bed and not a sleeping bag.  I can watch the bugs through the windshield as they go flying by.  A bee in my car would cause me to look for the most convenient place to pull over, roll down all the windows and get out while beating the air furiously in an attempt to get away.  I will give them the car.  I have also tried rolling down all the windows and driving as fast as I could with hopes of the bee being stuck on the real window..

     The people of God, believers, often find themselves the subject of some type of wrath in which they hope that the person responsible would get beat up by a very big angel with a sharp sword.  We might even try to “get even” by our sharp tongue or perhaps to swing a punch in their direction.  We look at the above verse and see that any kind of vengeance needs to come from God and not from us.  God has His purpose and His timing and it is all in His hand.  What is amazing is some of the methods that He chooses in order to show His power.  Egypt is a good example when God commanded flies, locusts and frogs.  Who would have thought that a nice frog would end up being a plague.  It was the number of them that was a surprise to the Egyptians.  Frogs were everywhere, even in the cooking pots.  At one point, God even used hornets to attack an army and they fled in the face of the hornets.  Hornets are not dumb.  I had a hornet nest and bought one of those long reaching spray cans and went out at night with a flashlight to get the nest.  I shot at them with the spray can and all of a sudden, the hornets were traveling down the beam of light which led to me.  I dropped everything and ran inside and tlet the hornets be.  God also commanded the quail to commit bird suicide by flying low into the hands of the Israelites to give them meat to eat along with the manna.  Vengeance may be coming to one of your antagonizers in a way that you don’t expect.  It could be anything from a bolt of lightning to ants.  Two men were found dead in Canada after they escaped from prison and the cause of death was deer flies.   God commands the creatures of the sea, the birds of the air and everything else that was created so don’t be surprised.  Praise God today for such a wonderful creation and it is all HIS!