Forgve Us, Part III

God has a purpose in the wrongs that are done in the world. Everything is for the good of God’s people and although God does not cause the wickedness in the heart that produces the wrong, yet the act itself is a part of God’s design and purpose. The testing that we endure is for the purpose of purifying and transforming us into the image of Jesus Christ our Savior.

This means that we are not to be angry with the persons who wrong us, for we must see these things as coming from God. But it also means that we are not to wrong our neighbor. We must not allow malice and hatred and the desire for revenge to cause us to act in a wrong way toward him.

Hence: when wrongs are done to me, I see them as coming from God and learn from them; if I give wrongs to others, I must repent the sin of the heart that caused me to do the wrong thing, and make it right with my neighbor.