I was thinking about how people mis-use other's in order to get their way. Whether it is a childish act or manipulation of events that brings someone to their ultimate demise, being used is no fun and being the user is abominable. Being raised in a basically public forum has given me the opportunity to have seen it through my life time, and it is never a pretty sight. I guess that, like most humans, my main desire, at times, has been revenge, whether it happend to me or someone else, I wanted to see judgment come and that swiftly. I am only being honest about this because I feel it is something that we have all dealt with at some time or other. As I was thinking, I remembered the story found in the book of Esther. Haman was out to get Mordecai and had devised a way to do it! He had a giant gallows built in his courtyard and intended to have Mordecai hung on it. By hung I mean that this pole was shoved up through the person's rectal area until it emerged somewhere from their upper body. They were left on the pole, to be ridiculed by on-lookers, until they died. He had already informed his close friends that this was to take place. On the night he went to tell the King of this plan (if you want to know the reasons why, read the short book of Esther), the King couldn't sleep and had the records book brought to him to be read. I guess he wanted to be bored to sleep! It was a good thing for Mordecai because in it was written that Mordecai had saved the Kings life by informing on two men who had planned to kill him! As the King was walking the floor, Haman came in with his plan ready to un-fold, the King spoke first asking him what he would to to honor someone that the King delighted in. Haman assumed the King was talking about himself and he came up with an elaborate reward. When he had finished, the King informed him that it was Mordecai that he intended to honor, Haman was furious but had to keep a straight face! Mordecai was paraded all over town wearing the King's garments while riding the King's own horse with Haman following telling everyone what a hero Mordecai had been! The end of that story is that Haman himself was hanged on the very gallows that he had built for Mordecai, along with his ten sons. Mordecai was assigned a place of honor with the King! Probably no one has ever planned to have you or me hung on a pole, but I'm sure that things have happend that you didn't understand. The point is that God is faithful, to us ALL. My dad told me once, when I was so angry over something a woman had done to me, that God loved her as much as he did me! I could hardly believe that, didn't even WANT to belive that! As I have gotten older and know my Father God better, I know this is true, and thankfully He forgives, because I have needed that forgiveness myself. BUT, I also know that when someone wrongs you and you are innocent, they will not get by with it forever, there will be a reckoning day. Humanity needs to see revenge taken on the One that brought sin to us, Satan himself! It is not because of God's lack of love that wars are fought and people are suffering, it is the presence of the devil in this world who brought about the sin in the Garden, that has created all the hate and crime and ruination of charactor all around. Revelation 20:3 I saw an Angel descending out of Heaven. He carried the key to the Abyss and a chain—a huge chain. He grabbed the Dragon, that old Snake—the very Devil, Satan himself!—chained him up for a thousand years, dumped him into the Abyss, slammed it shut and sealed it tight. No more trouble out of him, deceiving the nations— So God doesn't just get mad, with Satan, He gets even! Be blessed,let go and let God!