It’s easy to think we’ve got it all figured out. We see what we think is injustice and we believe that the wrong should be made right and the guilty punished. But most of us aren’t so quick to come to this conclusion regarding our own sins. We compare our wrongdoings to those of people who do things we consider to be worse, and we excuse our sin as if it shouldn’t count. But we’re wrong.
When we do the right thing and are treated poorly, our flesh screams and wants what we believe we deserve. We’re born this way. Just observe children as one cries out when another takes away a toy. God knows this, and Jesus taught us how He wants us to respond. He said that when we find ourselves...
