When someone betrays us, humiliates us, or deliberately hurts us, every fiber of our being screams for revenge.

That burning desire to strike back, to make them pay, to show them they can't mess with us,

it's as natural as breathing.

But what if God has a radically different plan?

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall explains how letting go of our resentments isn't a weakness.

It's the pathway to true freedom, described in Romans 12. When we surrender our battle,

we allow God to settle scores in ways we never imagined possible.

I am reading a very convicting section of scripture.

You thought Romans 121 and 2 was convicting.

It was.

And then Romans 12, 3 through 13, convicting.

And indeed it was.

But now we come to the section that really does ring the changes.

Because there isn't a person that I'm talking to today who hasn't known the hurt of someone who has done them wrong.

We all have that in common. Some to greater degree than others.

So I'm speaking today, not only to myself, but I'm speaking to

you, as if you and I were the only ones in the room, you and I. Take it that personally, otherwise

it'll be just sermon number 31 in a list of sermons in Romans.

You need to be transformed in an area of your life that has lacked attention long enough.

You need some habits broken. You need to respond in a transforming way rather than a natural way.

And God is ready to do that if your heart's prepared.

Romans 12, 14, and then 17 through 21.

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