LOVE AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR PROTECTION (ROMANS 12:17-21):

 People of God, one major characteristics of love is that love does not seek revenge. Revenge is the opposite of forgiveness, and when you operate in love, you operate in forgiveness. And when you operate in forgiveness, you don’t think about revenge.

 The bible is saying that revenge belongs to God, but there is a recommendation the bible has made here (Romans 12:17-21) which is a spiritual mystery. The bible is saying instead of revenging, treat those who have offended you with love; forgive them. And because love produces giving as we made to understand in the study of this book; when you are treating in love to somebody who wants you dead or to a person who least deserves your kindness, the bible says it becomes a judgment upon the person. It will be like heaping coals of fire upon the person’s head.

Now, how does that work? It becomes a protection for you. In other words, the revenge that the man or woman deserves because he/she has done evil against you will be execute by Jehovah who says: “vengeance is mine says the Lord”. 

And people of God, you know as well as I do that God’s coals of fire upon a person’s head are not compatible. In other words, the bible is saying: when you return love for hatred; when you return forgive for bitterness, that you pass a judgment of divine revenge upon that man or woman who you are dealing with in that manner. 

In other words, the bible is saying that you should not revenge and instead of revenging, you show kindness to the person that ought to receive revenge from you; the bible is saying that you gradually killing the person. In other words, except the person repents, the person will gradually suffer the judgment of God until the person dies. Because when you heap coals of fire upon a man’s head, except something happens and the coals of fire are removed from the person’s head, otherwise he/she is destined for destruction.

So, this is how love protects you, the power of forgiveness and not seeking revenge, the power of giving even to an “unworthy” person because of the person’s attitude to you, result in the person being handed over into the hands of God for judgment. And so love has a protective power and this protective power from Romans 12 is the product of the combined forces of forgiveness and giving. 

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By Pastor Michael Okwundu Onyeka.