Do Unto Others...And Then Run. in God, With Skin On

Revenge is a dish best served cold. Unless you are the one dispensing the dish and then it’s more like some like it hot. Nothing worse than a luke-warm beer. (okay there are millions of things)
It is human nature for us to want to extract a pound of flesh when we are done wrong. Up until about 5 years ago, I was guilty. Mess with the bull you get the horns. Mess with my family it’s lights out. I am still pretty much that way with my family, me not so much.
Until it is time for us to deal with the receiving end of revenge. Then we want mercy and grace along with understanding and forgiveness. It’s alright for me to want to kill you, but it’s a different story when it’s me.
The hardest part of forgiving, at least for me, is understanding that the man on the cross next to Christ asked to be remembered when Christ came into His Kingdom. A man who only turned to Christ because it was his only hope. His last few hours on earth were before him and he wanted grace. And he was guilty of his crime. He said so himself.
If you must kill your enemies, kill them with kindness.