PAYBACK!

All of us at some point have experienced someone doing us wrong, or deliberately hurting us. When it happens, it stings!  But its interesting that many times the tables will eventually turn.  Somewhere along the way the very person that hurt us will be in a position of needing something from us.  At some juncture we'll be in a position where we are the one in power, where we can harm them.  What goes around, comes around, as they say.

When that happens the question is rarely "what do i want to do?"  We KNOW what we want to do; Its PAYBACK TIME!  I think the real questions is "what WILL I do?"  Will I be led by my flesh, which always wants payback, or will I be led by the Spirit and word of God, which tells us " Vengeance is Mine, I will repay" (Rom 12:9)? 

It is those moments when we are in control, when we have the power, that reveals what is truly in our heart.  Those are the defining moments of our lives.  

In 1 Samuel 24 we find David in that exact situation:  Saul is vulnerable, he has been delivered up to Davids hand, and David can do with Saul whatever seems good to David.  What will David do?

Join us Sunday, May 13, for PAYBACK! a study of 1 Samuel 24.

Pastor Clay