“One day Jesus said to his disciples, ‘There will always be temptations to sin, but what sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting! It would be better to be thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around your neck than to cause one of these little ones to fall into sin. So watch yourselves!'” Luke 17:1-3
Today I’m furious because someone I love is being influenced by someone else’s promotion of evil. As difficult as it is to watch someone you love struggle, the emotions are less complicated and more raw toward those who act as the stumbling block. Anger wells up in me, desire for justice and vengeance when wrongdoing is promoted and perpetrated by selfish idiots toward others for their own pleasure…but I must, in that very moment, digress and seek repentance myself for my own sin…my own propensity to desire and act upon what is against my Creator. I cannot totally control my own behavior, much less anyone else’s!
I do pray for justice, but only the same as that which I would desire for myself when I fall into sin….as well as those I love.
“A servant of the Lord must not quarrel but must be kind to everyone, be able to teach, and be patient with difficult people. Gently instruct those who oppose the truth. Perhaps God will change those people’s hearts, and they will learn the truth. Then they will come to their senses and escape from the devil’s trap. For they have been held captive by him to do whatever he wants.” 2 Timothy 2:24-26
