'Obat' penghilang dendam orang Kristen

Susah hilangkan roh pendendam padahal sudah jadi orang kristen? apa 'obat' nya?

Kisah 16:31  Jawab mereka: "Percayalah kepada Tuhan Yesus Kristus dan engkau akan selamat, engkau dan seisi rumahmu."

Paulus dan Silas dipenjarakan karena mereka menyatakan kebenaran yang Kristus minta mereka untuk ajarkan. Banyak garis menggores mereka, dan kaki mereka terikat. Tetapi mereka tidak berpikir untuk mengeluh. 

Mereka tidak mengatakan, tidak ada gunanya memberitakan Kristus. Sebagai gantinya, mereka menyanyikan puji-pujian kepada Tuhan, bahwa mereka dianggap layak menderita rasa malu karena namaNya. 

Surga tertarik pada orang-orang yang menderita demi Kristus, dan para malaikat dikirim untuk mengunjungi para tahanan. 

Saat melangkah, pintu penjara terguncang terbuka, dan cahaya terang membanjiri penjara. Sang sipir terbangun, dan seandainya orang-orang itu melarikan diri, itu berarti akan mengambil nyawanya sendiri. Tetapi Paulus berseru, “Jangan menyakiti dirimu sendiri; karena kita semua di sini. " 

Lalu sipir itu bergegas masuk ke penjara, untuk melihat orang seperti apa yang telah diperlakukan dengan sangat kejam itu; dan dirinya di depan mereka, dia meminta maaf kepada mereka. "Tuan-tuan, apa yang harus saya lakukan untuk diselamatkan?" Dia bertanya. “Dan mereka berkata, Percayalah kepada Tuhan Yesus Kristus, dan engkau akan selamat, dan rumahmu. Dan mereka mengucapkan kepadanya firman Tuhan, kepada semua yang ada di rumahnya. " {YI 11 Oktober 1900, par. 7}

Para rasul tidak menunggu sampai pulih, luka-luka mereka diobati, sebelum mereka memulai pekerjaan mereka. 

Hal ini bukan hasil roh dari hati yang alamiah; tetapi Paulus dan Silas memiliki roh Kristus, bukan roh balas dendam. 

Dan sipir penjara “membawa mereka pada jam yang sama malam itu, dan mencuci luka-luka mereka; dan ia dibaptis, ia dan semua miliknya, segera. ” {YI 11 Oktober 1900, par. 8}

Kristus berkata tentang umat-Nya, "Kamu adalah terang dunia." Biarkan cahayamu bersinar di tengah kegelapan moral. Kamu membutuhkan Roh Kristus untuk tinggal di dalam hatimu melalui iman, jika engkau siap mengajar orang-orang lain jalan menuju surga. {YI 11 Oktober 1900, par. 10}

Tulisan aslinya :

Paul and Silas were imprisoned because they proclaimed the truth that Christ had bidden them teach. Many stripes were laid upon them, and their feet were placed in the stocks. But they did not think of murmuring. They did not say, It does not pay to preach Christ. Instead, they sang praises to God, that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. All heaven was interested in these men who were suffering for Christ’s sake, and angels were sent to visit the prisoners. At their tread the prison doors were shaken open, and a bright light flooded the prison. The jailer awoke, and supposing the men to have escaped, was about to take his own life. But Paul cried out, “Do thyself no harm; for we are all here.” Then the jailer hastened into the prison, to see what manner of men these were whom he had treated so severely; and casting himself before them, he asked their forgiveness. “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” he asked. “And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.” {YI October 11, 1900, par. 7}

The apostles did not wait until they were refreshed, and their wounds were dressed, before they began their work. This is not the spirit manifested by the natural heart; but Paul and Silas had the spirit of Christ, not the spirit of revenge. And the jailer “took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.” {YI October 11, 1900, par. 8}

Christ says of his people, “Ye are the light of the world.” Let your light shine amid the moral darkness. You need the Spirit of Christ to dwell in your hearts by faith, if you would be prepared to teach men the way to heaven. {YI October 11, 1900, par. 10}