Is This Punishment from God

I haven’t lived a perfect life and I wonder if my problems are punishment from God, but maybe I don’t know the whole story and that God is overflowingly full of grace and mercy.

They wanted retribution. Payback.

A desire for revenge coursed through their veins for what had happened to them, but then, in a whisper of a moment, they thought of what they had done. Perhaps the other also wanted retribution, payback for what they had have done. Perhaps they were seeking revenge against them.

They had stolen from them and now they wanted it all back, plus interest.

If you do the crime then you recieve the punishment until the other is satisfied. But when will they be satisfied? What will truly restore the balance scales of justice to equilibrium?

And their pain seems like a bottomless hole that, try as you might and with all the resources you have, is impossible to fill. You realise that the hole, that dark hole of vacuumous space, has been growing from other intrusions on the soul.

Your crime is but one that has sculptured the walls of the heart.

They want you to pay, but you know nothing within your capability will even begin to calm their pain.

God, the judge, sits and weeps at the mess.

We may look at our suffering and consider that this must be payback from God for what we have done.

We see the suffering of others and make judgments that their suffering is retribution for what they have done. They’re getting what they deserve. Please don’t do this.

 

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