Friday, August 25, 2017

Good to All Mankind.

There is a whole lot of rendering evil for evil today isn't there?

Seriously, rendering evil for evil has become acceptable on so many levels. We feel justified getting retribution when we are wronged. We go to great lengths to give evil for the evil we receive. We don't believe we should ever have to just sit back and take any abuse in any form whatsoever. We cry out as loud as we can on social media outlets about the injustices flooding our world. We let people know how angry we are about the unfair practices in our world. We hold our opinions so high we can't imagine changing that opinion, adopting another's opinion because ours is just so incredibly right. Evil for evil. You hurt me then I hurt you. You hurt those we love, we hurt you. You hurt society, we hurt you. You hurt the earth, we hurt you. I'm not talking about hurting in a strictly physical fashion, we can hurt others in many ways. Holding on tight to the injustice surrounding us we spend countless time bemoaning the injustice.

We are to follow that which is good … to ALL men. No discriminating, no separating men into categories of deserving and undeserving of our good will towards them. As soon as we start choosing WHO deserves our compassion, WHO deserves our respect, WHO deserves our good will we are putting up a wall of self-righteousness, a wall that will separate and divide in a way God never intended. Having good will towards all does not mean compromising a personal faith, it means in all things you are revealing the love of God and not the love of self and all its ideas of right and wrong.  You can love someone and despise the things they do.  God loves us but despises the sins we choose to commit.  God's love will not even end towards unrepentant sinners because His compassion is to blot them out of existence- NOT cause them to suffer endlessly proves He truly wants good for ALL mankind.

1Th 5:15  See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men. 

1Pe 1:22  Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently

Mat 5:44  But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; 
Mat 5:45  That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. 

Rom 12:17  Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. 
Rom 12:18  If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. 
Rom 12:19  Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. 
Rom 12:20  Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. 
Rom 12:21  Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. 

1Pe 2:21  For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: 
1Pe 2:22  Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: 
1Pe 2:23  Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: 
1Pe 2:24  Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. 
1Pe 2:25  For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. 

1Pe 3:8  Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: 
1Pe 3:9  Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. 

By the grace and mercy of our Lord and Savior may He live in us, creating a clean heart within us and renewing a right spirit within so that we may truly allow Him to do His will through us- not rendering evil for evil, but good to all men.

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