Revenge. What a toxic emotion. What a deceptive motive. It is so easy to slip into this deadly trap. It starts with a wound. Perhaps a deep hurt, humiliation or betrayal. We start to think, “Life isn’t fair!” or “This is too much!” Soon our wound festers and anger becomes an obsession. However, what makes revenge so deceptive is that we don’t have to murder someone to get revenge. Instead, we feel justified in slandering the person, shunning them, campaigning against something they are doing, posting hurtful messages on social media and etc. There are a million ways of getting revenge that we feel we can justify. We say, “This is not revenge.” Instead we think that we are simply settling the score, giving them what they obviously deserve, or straightening them out. We must be careful, because if the emotion is out of anger, it is revenge. And, it is so hard not to go there. What then can we do? Paul shares the only thing we can do. Let go. Give it to God. Let Him take over your case. The author of Hebrews was serious when he wrote, “Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many.” So from now on i will follow that advice. I will let God search my heart and then pull out any bitter root that has taken ground in my emotions. I won’t let a wound fester into something worst.