Proverbs 24:29 Do not say, “I will do to him just as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.”
It is hard not to hit back at people when they hurt you. That is our natural reaction; but not what God has required!
When we react rather than act we do what we have learned as habits and not what we have learned from God.
Christ did not show us a ministry of reacting but a ministry of reaching out through actions and through God’s love.
God wants us to make a difference in the world and not to react to the world and keep it going!