Title: Vengeance! Not permitted.

Make sure that no one pays back one wrong act with another. Instead, always try to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.

1 Thessalonians 5:15 NIRV

Devotion: Paul here reinforced the teaching of Christ that says we should repay evil with good. In Matthew 5:44, Jesus says "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"

  We have a saying in my language roughly translated as follows: he who repays evil with evil sustains evil. In other words the other person will retaliate and on and on.

 But we are children of God and we should be good example to the world, being conscious of the fact that people no longer read the Bible but keep monitoring us who confess Christ as Lord and Saviour.

A little derailment from the ways of Christ and the people around us will notice it and deride us. So we must be circumspect in everything we do among the breathren and in the larger society. By our conduct alone we can either win souls for Christ or drive souls further from Christ, may this later not be our portion in Jesus name.

 Therefore breathren let's us repay evil with good and pray for those who do evil to us. We may not necessarily socialise with the ones that can harm us but pray from the distance for them to have a change of heart.

 Kindly share your thoughts with us.

   By Joel Olanrewaju.