How to live when someone hurts you

What to know:

• The certainty of punishment: Eze 18.4, 20; Rm 6.23
• The severity of punishment, 2 These 1.7-9
• The agent of punishment:
  • Not you or me, Rm 12.19a
  • Temporally the Gov’t, Rm 13.3-4
  • Eternally God, Rm 12.19b
• Your role in conflict:
  • Against you:
    • Love your enemies and do them good. Mt 5.44; Lk 6.27, 35
    • Forgive them. Mt 18.21-35
  • Against someone who needs help, rescue them. Ps 82.4
• What to do:
• How do you comfort yourself when you aren’t allowed to “strike back” and “get even”?
• Accept and appreciate that God called you to this as part of your earthly mission: 1 Pet 3.8-22.
• Consider it a trial for which God promises to provide a way of escape: 1 Cor 10.13
• Appreciate that God forgave you. Col. 3.18, 1 Jn 2.12