This is a hard lesson today. In the Old Testament, Ezek. 7:27b and the New Testament in Rev. 3:19 we learn of the universal law: "I will punish you for your sins and treat you the same way you have treated others....I correct and punish everyone I love. So make up your minds to turn away from your sins." The verse from Ezekiel is the Universal Law: what you do to or for others will be returned to you. The verse from Revelation reminds us that God corrects those He loves. Either verse reminds us to stop sinning.
The Universal Law is very much like the Golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." The difference is, in the Universal Law, if you do a kindness for someone, someone else will turn and do a kindness for you. But , if you do a hurtful deed, someone else will turn and do a similar hurtful deed to you. God's warning, I believe, that says, "That's how that feels!"
In the Revelation's verse, God is reminding us that there will be punishment for sin especially to those God loves. God's work is never done in us, for although we are perfectly loved, we are imperfect!
God, I shall not resist your correction and will remember that through others may be the way you handle it! Amen.
God is right. He is always right!
Jo INMN
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