Leave It with God

... Live generously and graciously toward others, the way God lives toward you.
Matthew 5: 48, The Message


"Saul made life difficult for David, but he didn't destroy him. If David had allowed Saul's hate to determine his life, he would have been destroyed. He maybe wouldn't have been killed, but he certainly would have been damned -- reduced, cramped, and constricted by vengeance. When he was being chased down by Saul, he prayed his distress and anger and left it with God, Saul's sufficient judge. Saul's hate, instead of narrowing David and reducing him, in fact provided conditions in which he became large, expansive and generous."

Leap Over a Wall

Leave it With God, God's Message for Each Day by Eugene Peterson.