only God

When pondering the violence and evil in the world it will help to spend some time listening to Psalm 58. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a theologian and pastor in Germany during Hitler's reign of terror. He was in prison because he was part of the resistance movement plotting the assassination of Hitler. His writings/sermons give insight into his experience, the Word and how the Bible came alive for him in the face of evil and death. Some of my thoughts are taken from his book, Meditating On The Word. "…in the face of the enemy of God and his church we can only pray…..Only the one who has power over Satan, God himself, can take the matter in hand….Whoever calls for the vengeance of God renounces thereby any vengeance of his own." (p. 91) 

There are some things only God can straighten out/deal with.