Justice Will Be Done

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

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Joy, Unknown, Devotional, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Daily Devotional, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Solid Joys, Jesus, John Piper

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🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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When you lay down the burden of vengeance, God will pick it up.

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0:00.0	October 5, justice will be done.
0:05.4	Beloved, never avenge yourselves.
0:09.8	But leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written.
0:13.7	Vengeance is mine.
0:15.6	I will repay," says the Lord, Romans 12 and 19.
0:21.7	All of you have been wronged at one time or another.
0:26.1	Most of you, probably, have been wronged seriously by someone who has never apologized
0:34.0	or done anything sufficient to make it right.
0:37.5	And one of the deep hindrances to your letting go of that hurt and bitterness is the conviction,
0:46.1	the justified conviction that justice should be done and that the moral fabric of the universe
0:53.8	will unravel if people can just get away with horrible wrongs and deceive everyone.
1:01.7	That's one of the hindrances to forgiveness and letting grudges go.
1:08.4	It's not the only one.
1:10.7	We have our own sin to deal with, but it is a real one.
1:16.4	We feel that just to let it go would be to admit that justice simply won't be done.
1:24.6	And we can't do it.
1:26.5	So we hold on to anger and play the events or the words over and over with the feelings.
1:34.9	It shouldn't have happened.
1:37.1	It shouldn't have happened.
1:38.7	It was wrong.
1:40.2	It was wrong.
1:42.3	How can he or she be so happy when I am so miserable?
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