He resolved to control himself better and started keeping a scorecard on himself. That's a helpful strategy. In a recent discussion of youth homicides, it was pointed out that an insult which a generation ago might have provoked another insult in response or a fistfight may now inspire a gunshot. We are living in a world where anger passes quickly into murder. If we allow our hatred for those who have wronged us to go unchecked, it will eventually destroy us.
Somebody has to stop the cycle of hatred.
Somebody must stop the cycle of hurt repaid by hurt, wrong repaid by wrong, hatred repaid by hatred, and injury repaid by injury. We must recognize that we are not here to even the score. One of our members gave me a new translation of the New Testament this week. It's called The Message by Eugene Peterson. I'll take care of it.