https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?s ... ersion=NIVSimeon and Levi....did they do anything wrong?
Their father was worried about reputation and economic survival. But Simeon and Levi's position was: don't mess with our sister. And if you do, you're dead.
Maybe brothers aren't supposed to forgive. Maybe there is a family exception to forgiveness. If we're just supposed to go around forgiving all the time....what if someone breaks into my house and threatens one of my children....do I offer the intruder forgiveness and a glass of milk and cookies? No, I kill them.
Frank Parker is dead...cancer. What did school and field leadership know? Memories mother confronted the school board about Frank in 1982. My sister was abused by Frank from 1985 to 1987. So who do Sidebotham/IHART/Postal inspectors blame? Alton Cothron, who worked in Macedonia, thousands of kilometers away. IHART, investigators hired to investigate the entity paying them, is one of the more ridiculous inventions of the 21st century.
But there is that attorney from I John 2.
When He was hanging on a cross, He interceded for the very people who nailed Him to the cross. What was it he said?
When I forgive, I give the matter to God. He is much wiser, much more powerful than all courts, but He is also much more loving and forgiving. As for justice on this planet....well, do I really want justice to be handed out, starting with me? The other day, I turned right from 42nd onto Madison, and paused briefly in the right hand lane so the senior citizen I had brought from Staten Island could exit safely into the sidewalk. But then, an NYPD officer appeared and pointed to a sign, way over there on the other side of the street (seemed like miles away) and there was a sign that something like no right turns between certain hours. License and registration. I sat there watching him walk back to his squad car thinking about the upcoming fine. After a while, he marches back across Madison Av., and all I got was "I'm letting you off. Start paying attention!"
We love mercy. Our Father is honored when we show mercy to fellow human beings...fellow human beings for whom He gave His only begotten Son.