If you repay good with evil, evil will never leave your house.
Proverbs 17:13 NLT
There is one who's goodness was repaid with evil.
One who is Good.
Pure
Untainted
Holy
Good.
If the priest was not 100% purified when he entered the presence of God, he died.
Our God and evil, sin, could not abide together.
And yet, at the cross, evil entered the house.
All our sin was somehow placed on, absorbed by Jesus, who had humbled himself to leave heaven for earth, and humbled himself to let sin into his house.
Into himself
His good was repaid with evil.
He didn't do all that for himself.
He did it for us.
And one day we'll understand what that really meant, what that really took.
Good was repaid with evil
This is love.
He stepped towards, stepped in, and in some small way asks us to do that too, to follow His example and lay down our lives for others...
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