I glance up at the pool to see my three year old son furiously splashing another youngster by leaning back and kicking his feet like a motor. I immediately stopped the activity, explaining that we don’t splash others like that. It isn’t kind. But my little guy felt completely justified.
“But he went like this to me!” And then he stuck out his tongue and spit.
And that’s what we do. Someone spits at us, and we splash them back.
In yesterday’s post, we talked about overcoming evil. We try to overcome evil with evil, but like Jay Adams says, you can’t fight against evil with its own weapons. We need to use God’s.
Blessings. Kindness. Love.
But what if you’ve been spit at and you don’t feel very loving? All you want to do is splash back?
The idea of overcoming means we don’t just swim to the other side of the pool and ignore the person. We love them. It’s an action. We overcome with good.
We can’t do it alone. We need to be firmly tied to our Ultimate Lifeguard, the Savior of our Souls. Afterall, love comes from Him.
