vengeance applied

I think I posted on a verse about vengeance the other day. It came to me that I have a big situation where this scripture applies. I just got my wallet stolen at the YMCA in the locker room. This is very awful. I have to stop my credit card and because of the way I do things all buying has stopped until we get the new credit card. I am now about to go wait in awful lines at DPS to get a duplicate driver's license. What a mess! All my ID's were in that wallet.

I am very angry. I blame the YMCA. I suspect an inside job because someone had to cut a lock to get into my locker. The locker showed no signs of forced entry. Who but an employee would be able to do that without someone noticing? If it was not an employee then the security is very lax, criminally so. I will not go into all the details. But I am ready to sue. I am ready to make a stink. But God has brought me up short.

Instead I am calling on God to take vengeance on the perpetrators. I have had experience with this. I do know God will do it. It will not be as I would do it. God knows best. I cannot know all the facts. I probably would get angry at innocent people. And God knows how to do it in such a way that he gets the glory. I also pray for their souls, that they would repent of their sin. One hates to believe someone would sin against them. I do not know if I was singled out (probably) or whether it was random. One thinks one is a good person, not deserving of this.

Anyway "Vengeance is mine, says the LORD, I will repay." I am going to keep praying about this each time I have to replace an ID. There are quite a few.

I am reminded of another person that I am very angry at, the man who advises my wife about the affairs of her dead brother. I believe a lot of people, including the current bank officer, have taken advantage of her awfully. She does not agree. But I need to consign him to God and let it go. I do not need to continue to hold a grudge and think of ways to get him back. It is best if I leave it alone. He is a Christian too. Perhaps he thinks what he has done is perfectly fair.

I am reading "Friday the Rabbi Went Hungry". Early on one character says he thinks he never cheated anyone in business. You can ask anyone he says. Therefore, he thinks, God will take care of him. How many can say no one has ever felt cheated by my actions? I cannot. I know at least one family that got very angry at me for what I thought were very fair dealings. He probably went to God with his thought too. I am willing that God judge between the two of us. Rightly or wrongly they thought I cheated them. So when a businessman says he is convinced everyone thinks he is fair, he is making a fantastical boast.