Vengance is mine says the Lord; A New Understanding

Sometimes God's way of revenge is not the way we humans look at revenge for example God didn't punish Laban for cheating Jacob, instead He blessed Jacob more...

If you read Genesis chapters 30: 25 - 31:19, you will see how Jacob left Labans home and what he left with.

As I pondered the story I likened it to employers who cheat their employees.
You see Laban was an employer and Jacob his employee. The bible says he changed Jacobs wages 10 times; I likened that to unpaid salary and salary decrease, yet Jacob kept working faithfully for Laban UNTIL God told him it was time to leave (Gen 31:3)

Despite the injustice done to Jacob he didn't leave empty handed because God did not forget all he had suffered in his place of employment. God served justice by ensuring Jacob left a whole lot richer than when he came.

I have gone through the experience of having unpaid salary for a few months and I can tell you the various schemes of revenge I have 'helped' God to think of. I have even rehearsed the speech i would give my employer before leaving the job and trust me those schemes were neither godly nor good..

But today in the New light of understanding God has given me about His kind of revenge, I am humbled and ashamed of my earlier thoughts...

You see we all face or have faced some sort of injustice at one point in time or another and it really pleases us to think that God would mete out a harsh punishment of destruction to the individual responsible;

But today God is saying punishment is not the most important thing...What matters most is that at the end of the day, you have the last laugh, the upper hand, meaning He blesses you and that blessing is so much more than the things you were cheated of...

So smile through that injustice you're facing because as God has given me a new meaning of His promise that says ' Vengeance is mine saith the Lord' ... I am confident that when he says its time to leave that unpleasant and unjust situation, I will not be leaving empty handed but rather with more blessings than what I was cheated of...

And the same goes for you and for everyone who believes it, because God's word is alive and active to ALL that believe...
Shalom and Happy New Year!!!
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