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The Topic of Daily Fountain Devotional for 19th August 2024 Is “Vengeance Belongs To God”
Read: Genesis 34: 25-31(NKJV)
25 Now it came to pass on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword and came boldly upon the city and killed all the males.
26 And they killed Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and went out.
27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because their sister had been defiled.
28 They took their sheep, their oxen, and their donkeys, what was in the city and what was in the field,
29 and all their wealth. All their little ones and their wives they took captive; and they plundered even all that was in the houses.
30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me by making me obnoxious among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and since I am few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and kill me. I shall be destroyed, my household and I.”
31 But they said, “Should he treat our sister like a harlot?”
ANGLICAN COMMUNION DEVOTIONAL OUTLINE FOR 19TH AUGUST 2024.
Dinah had been raped and abducted by Shechem and the men of the city being privy to the plot to take over Jacob’s wealth, condoned it (vv. 25-29). What should Jacob do than to hold his peace and think deeply as an aged man? (v.5). Any attempt to take revenge would make me stink among the inhabitants of the land, and being few in number, they would gather against me and slay me, Jacob thought (v.30). But for Simeon and Levi, Shechem and all involved in this reproachable act could not go scot-free. They took revenge, and doubled the sins committed by Shechem. “Should he treat our sister as a harlot?” was the ground upon which they justified their cruel act, when reprimanded by their father.
God’s word for us remains unshaken: “Vengeance is mine; I will repay,” says the Lord (Rom. 12: 19). We do not have any reason whatsoever to justify taking God’s position on vengeance. Jacob at the verge of his dying, dissociated himself from this cruel act (Gen. 49: 5-7). But could his children have folded their hands and do nothing? No! You better arise and commit your grievances unto the righteous Judge (1 Pet. 2: 23). Hand the matter over to God in prayers!
PRAYER: Help me Lord, to trust Your righteous judgment against the wicked.
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