let HIM settle the score…

we are looking here on the front porch at some wonderful guarantees that GOD has promised that i can count on.  HE says i can count on HIM to forgive my sins, to give me guidance and also i can count on GOD to settle the score.

when you read the newspaper do you ever feel like, it is just not fair!  you read about a criminal who’s done all sorts of things and he gets off scott-free on some technicality.  or you read about a scandal where somebody has been dishonest and yet he’s prospering and he skips the country with millions of dollars.  and you’re working hard and barely making it.  it’s just not fair! 

my response to that is, you are exactly right.  life is not fair. GOD never said life would be fair.  because we live in an imperfect world, because there is sin in this world, people do the wrong things and innocent people get hurt and life is not fair. 

that’s why one day GOD is going to settle the score.  you see there is a heaven and there is a hell.  one day there is going to be a judgment time when GOD is going to clear the slates, settle the score.  there are going to be rewards.

when you face a hurt do you ever find yourself wanting to get even with that person?  get even.  revenge.  lee iacocca said, “you don’t get mad, you get even!”  folks, that is a lousy way to live. that’s a lousy philosophy of life. 

romans 12.19 (tlb), dear friends, never avenge yourselves.  leave that to GOD, for HE has said HE will repay those who deserve it. 

don’t try to get revenge yourself, to get even yourself, let GOD do it and HE will repay those who deserve it. 

notice that one day GOD is going to settle the score.  that means that GOD is very much aware of what people do to you.  when you’re put down, hurt, stabbed in the back, maligned, people spread rumors about you that just aren't true – how do you respond to that? 

you let GOD settle the score.  GOD is very much aware of what everybody does to you.  if you’ve been hurt in the past, GOD understands, HE knows.  the bible says let GOD handle it. 

just a thought from the front porch…