There’s a better way to do this!

That’s true of couches and many other things! 

I think I’m missing the point of a couch! It’s a lot more comfortable to lay on it than behind it! I got that new table plugged in (it has outlets, I’m not crazy for plugging in a table 🤣), and then I was kinda stuck. My family pulled me out after laughing at me! 

I guess we can lie on a couch however we want, but sometimes things are the difference between right and wrong. 

Sometimes I think we need to shout “there’s a better way to do this” to ourselves when we’re about to respond to someone who did us wrong. 

Genesis‬ ‭34‬:‭27‬-‭30‬ ‭says, “The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister. They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field, and all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house. And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.”

Being wronged never makes it right to do wrong. 

Spoiling the city and even kidnapping people was extreme revenge not justice. 

And Jacob focused here on the blowback, the repercussions not the wrongdoing. 

When we use the wrongs of others to try to justify our own sin, we’re headed down a dark path. 

We’ll never do right by excusing wrong. 

And there’s no “Well they did ____ to me” clause that makes sin anything but sin. 

There really is a better way to do this! 

Today’s Bible reading is Genesis 34.