Revenge Fun!

The Bible says you’re not supposed to take revenge against those who hurt you.

Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord. (Romans 12:19)

Not only are we not supposed to ‘get back at’ someone because God says ‘NO’ but there are several practical reasons to respond to evil with forgiveness:

1. Forgiveness may break the cycle of retaliation and lead to mutual reconciliation.

Left to themselves, the relationship that lives by ‘eye for an eye’ will continue hurting each other.  But if someone decides to stop the hurting, it may end up healing the friendship.

2. Forgiveness may make the enemy feel ashamed and change his/her ways.

Somehow I feel justified to be angry with someone who is angry with me and to hurt someone who has hurt me.  But when I’m mean to someone and they respond in kindness and forgiveness, it puts me in an awkward position and I often feel guilty for how I’ve treated them.  Your forgiveness of another’s actions may lead them to realize how much they’ve hurt you and ask for forgiveness.

3. Since repaying evil for evil hurts you as much as your enemy, forgiveness will free you from bitterness.

People who allow themselves to feel the victim of every hurt, become very self-centered and bitter people.  I’ve found that hurting people tend to hurt others.  Forgiveness will turn bitterness into love.

Now that we’ve entertained why you should forgive and not take revenge for hurts, you have to admit, there is an evil kind of fun in getting ‘back’ at someone.  So even though we’re not going to use any of these ideas, let’s have some fun and I’ll list a few ways we ‘could’ get back at someone.  Some of these are great for brothers and sisters (not that I have any experience). These are the top 15 I found:

1. Place your victim’s toothbrush in a cup of water and freeze it before they use it.
2. Juice a lemon with your vicim’s toothbrush.
3. Put a walkie-talkie underneath the victim’s bed and say creepy things into the night.
4. Steal all your victim’s left shoes.
5. Place chicken broth or koolaid powder int eh shower head.
6. Write your victim a ‘love note’ from their crush to meet somewhere, then at that place leave another ‘note’ to meet somewhere else, etc. until they realize they’re a no-show.
7. Sign your victim up for every ad or email you see.
8. Put clear cling wrap over the toilet seat.
9. Put on lipstick and leave lip prints on every single cup in the house.  Extra points if your victim has company that night.
10. Send an email to invite everyone to a party at your victim’s house at 11pm.
11. Put a whoopie cushion under every seat in your victim’s house.
12. Set all the clocks in the house 4-5 hours ahead so they’ll get up too early. Or move them to just 15 minutes late, so they’ll be late for everything.
13. Empty their school back pack and fill it with their underwear.
14. Take their computer keyboard, remove the keys, and put them upside down and/or in different places.
15. Serve them a special meal, replacing ground beef with dog food.

Do you have any funny revenge stories?