Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the Masters.

We're devoted ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

We're picking back up with new morning mercies,

and I'm just going to take it from here.

It says this, Who of us has not desired vengeance at some point in our lives.

God has placed a desire for justice in each of our hearts.

So when we face injustice, it is very tempting to want to take justice

into our own hands. We see it in a little child who, when hit, immediately hits back. We see it in a teenager who has been publicly

embarrassed by a friend. He not only cuts that friend out of his life but he looks for a

way to heap embarrassment on him as well. We see it in marriage. When one of the spouses

cursed the other with silent treatment for a couple of days because he or she has

been hurt, we really do find it easier to make war than to make peace and we often wish that

God would make war with others on our behalf. Consider how Paul approaches this

topic in Romans chapter 12 versus 14 through 21.

Bless those who persecute you. Bless and do not curse them.

Rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep.

Live in harmony with one another.

Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly.

Never be wise in your own sight.

Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is

honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved never avenge yourselves.

But leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord. To the contrary, if your enemy is hungry,

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