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GOODNESS AS A WEAPON.


 GOODNESS AS A WEAPON.
 
Romans 12:17-21
Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody. 18 If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. 19 Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord. 20 On the contrary: “If your enemy is hungry, feed him;
if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.” 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
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In human nature, someone that wrongs you entices you to throw back the same measure just to hurt them the way you feel you have been hurt. Yes they need to be hurt like you have. But the Bible rightly says that it is not for you to avenge, vengeance is the Lord's.

You might be hurt by someone else. Someone may have done you the wrong. God will surely pay back.
Just then there is a simplified weapon here, that Romans speaks about. Paying evil with good. You cannot control how much evil people do; you cannot control how people behave towards you. But you can control how you behave, how you respond.

Doing exactly what your enemies do doesn't make you any different. Being the different kind from your enemies is doing the opposite of what they do. 
Anytime you show such character of good acts yet your enemies fight hard to do the evil, you let them retain a burden of unanswered questions. They literally do evil against you to hurt you; which in turn ,they expect a response in terms of a quarrel or fight. But if their expectations are brought to nothing because you continually do right acts, you heap coals upon them. They become restless with shame and disappointments. Their hearts ache. 

You cannot overcome the world by doing what the world does. You have to be a little different from the world. You have to be Christlike. You have to show the love among the haters. Show the giving spirit among the greedy. Open your heart and let God's light shine upon you.; Shining against the wrong doers. Be the light among the darkness. You are a child of God. Be a god among your people.

                 _GOD BLESS YOU_

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