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Devotional Reading - January 2, 2026

01/02/26

Good morning, Friends, 

Romans 12:17 -Never paying back evil for evil to anyone, respecting what is good in the sight of all men,

This is the perfect day to let the "payback" spirit go! All of us have experienced times of hurt, pain, betrayal, disappointment, and treachery at the hands of someone else. We survived the plot, scheme, and plan of those who wanted to harm us or even by those who didn't intend to harm us. Nevertheless, we still felt the sting of it ,and consequently the difficult process of healing afterwards. Those feelings are valid, they are real, and yes, the situation occurred. This verse doesn't overlook the truth of matter or render the trauma obsolete.  It deals with the trauma directly. The Apostle Paul is commanding believers to "never" pay back evil with evil to "anyone". Not to hide the hurt but don't react with the same evil intent. Don't use that emotion to plot, scheme, and plan traps to engulf the flames of your revenge. 

Just a wait a minute, let that sit!!!! Can you feel that?? That's heavy. And it's humanly impossible in our own strength to carry out! ,It's only possible by complete surrender to God's Word. Emotion doesn't drive us, we live by Scripture, empowered only by the Holy Spirit within us. 

Furthermore, God says that vengeance is His, not ours. Providential justice, grace, and mercy are in God's hand. That's His business, not ours. Our business is to by faith operate as He commanded.

Let's keep it 💯 ... this is a hard truth to live with. Just sitting anxiously on the sidelines waiting for God to do what we want him to do to the people who hurt us ⏰ . Check it out, the spiritual reality is this, We Don't Sit and Wait!  We trust God! When we trust God, we humbly give him every emotion that riddles us, claws at us, and lovingly offer it to Him as our burden-bearer, heart-restorer, emotion-keeper, grief-consoler. We give up our pride, which tries to captain the ship, and surrender even our deepest, darkest emotions to him.  

Friends, He knows what's best for us! He can heal what's broken in you. He can restore what was crushed in you. He can transform the rage, anger, and pain into a beautiful fortress of strength, mercy, and grace. 

You know what time ⏰ it is!!! Lock 🔒 in!

Maranatha (The Lord is coming)  
Soli Deo Gloria (Glory to God Alone)

- Grace & Peace
Pastor Trent

Comments

  1. Mother Shirelle HarrisJanuary 2, 2026 at 11:22 AM

    Amen 💯 🙏🏿

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  2. Lo Lo YoungJanuary 2, 2026 at 1:41 PM

    Amen. I needed this because it already happened today & I did have to surrender it to God. Unjust is real but not our battle to fight. I passed the test.

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  3. Lo Lo YoungJanuary 2, 2026 at 1:43 PM

    Amen. I needed this today because it already happened, however, I had to surrender it to God Who fights Our battles. Unjust is real & I passed the test.

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  4. AnonymousJanuary 2, 2026 at 4:21 PM

    Amen 🙏

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  5. AnonymousJanuary 22, 2026 at 8:59 AM

    Just read this today but it’s right on time. Amen!!

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 2, 2026 at 1:22 PM

    Truth for sure, but difficult to accomplish sometimes. Only thru/by the H.S. can we get it done! 💯

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