Vengeance is not ours its God’s—Vengeance? What does it means? Is it a kind of revenge or something? Is it legitimate? Is it moral? Is it the same as justice? Why does it is owned by God? Does it make us equal?

Well vengeance is about retaliation and retribution to perceive in wrongdoing. It is harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done. It is considered as act of revenge but it implies greater justification and less purely personal motivation. It is based on the concept of “an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth”. It is actually a dream to make things equal and even in a wrong manner.

Vengeance is absolutely not legitimate in our society because it is very injurious as it is a very powerful feeling and can make loose their values and understanding.

Vengeance is a moral? Well it depends on who will do it. If we, people of God do vengeance, absolutely it is not moral for we will harm other people. In doing vengeance we absolutely do not follow the commandments of God: as God says in Luke 6:27 “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you” and as James Garfiled says “This nation is too great to look for revenge”. But if God does vengeance I think it is the time that vengeance became moral because he knows what is right and what is wrong.

Vengeance is absolutely not the same as Justice. Justice refers to the establishment or determination of rights according to the rules of law and equity. Social Justice is an expression of God’s plan for humanity that concretizes the work of love, and thus realizes the Reign of God. It is giving to all people in spite of their vaist differences in race, color, sex, educational achievement, religion and social status, what is due to each one as having the same dignity and destiny as people of God. So you see Justice is a lot different from vengeance because justice is the way to do what is right and just for the good of the common good.

 Well of course God owns vengeance. Well it doesn’t seem that God is telling us that vengeance is fine. In fact it is telling us not to avenge ourselves. Of course we cannot live when vengeance is around us. So God takes the duties and responsibility of vengeance and told us that he’ll take care of it instead. So those who need justice and have the strong desire to avenge will think that God is the one who will punish the people who hurt them. God assures to us that he’ll make the right thing to do. If we put in our mind that God owns vengeance, then it is not our business to deal with but it’s God’s.

Vengeance doesn’t make us equal. We people of God are endowed with a rational soul and are created in the image; we the same nature and origin and being redeemed by Christ, we enjoy the same divine calling and destiny; there is here a basic equality between all men and it must be given even greater recognition. We doesn’t need vengeance to make us equal because there is an obvious equality in our society today even though we are not the same in terms of physical attributes as well as intellectual and moral capacities.

 We all have the freedom of choice. Freedom is very essential in our identity as human beings created in the image of God. It gives us the necessary capacity to choose that which is good and to turn away from what is bad. We have a power whether to act or not to act, to choose between good or bad and to choose to take vengeance or to leave it with God. We should choose to love rather than hate, choose to love rather than cry, choose to create rather than destroy, choose to heal rather than wound and choose to live rather than die.

Why should we engage ourselves in vengeance? We can stop vengeance by not engaging to it. Okay, the problem is still there but we should pray for it and just leave it to God. If someone pushes you don’t push back because I believe that we can’t solve any problems in violence. We should learn to forgive then forget or forget then forgive even though I know it’s hard to do it. We should love others as God loves us because having hatred in our heart is bad in our health and God wouldn’t be happy to see that we have hatred in our hearts.

Three years ago. Nakilala ko si crush. simula nung araw na yun, naging masaya ko, malungkot, nagsimula akong magselos, magalit, umiyak, magpahalaga, matuwa sa maliliit na bagay na dapat kong maramadaman„ ngunit ang higit sa lahat, natuto akong magmahal. akala ko noong una, crush lang, simpleng pagkagusto lang talaga, ngunit hindi, ng dahil sa kanya, natuto akong magsakripisyo at pahalagahan ang maliliit na bagay na binibigay sakin ng ibang tao„ lalong lalo na ang mga oras at attensyon na binibigay nila sa kin. Ng dahil sa kanya nag-aral ako ng mabuti, naging mas mabuti akong tao kaysa noon. Subalit ngayon? ito na ba talaga ang katapusan ng lahat lahat?