March 22, 2020 Higher Everyday Devotional :- REMEMBER RETRIBUTION
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HIGHER EVERYDAY
SUNDAY MARCH 22, 2020
REMEMBER RETRIBUTION
TEXT: ECCLESIASTES 8:10-17
MEMORY VERSE: “Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil” (ECCLESIASTES 8:11).
Just punishment for wrong doing is called retribution. It was Marcus Cicero who said, “Let the punishment be equal with the offence”. A murder was committed in New York City on 2nd September, 1990. A family of four from Provo, Utah, had visited the city to attend the US Open tennis matches. They were assaulted by a band of four youngsters, the older of their 2 sons died while trying to rescue their mother who was being kicked in the face by the gangsters. The young gangsters were sentenced to life imprisonment without parole by the judge. That is retribution!
God is loving but He also punishes sin. That’s why Paul said, “Be not deceived, God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap”. Often times it seems that the wicked go unpunished while the righteous suffer. That God doesn’t punish wrongdoing immediately should not embolden people to keep sinning. Anne of Austria once said to Cardinal Mazarin: “My lord Cardinal, God does not pay at the end of every week; nevertheless, He pays”.
QUOTE: God is loving but He also punishes sin.
CHALLENGE: Let the punishment be equal with the offence.
PRAYER: Give me the grace Oh God to escape eternal retribution.