You feel guilt over your responses to each of your loved ones today. Please acknowledge that your injuries are real. The Lord does not require that you respond in a perfect manner to the injustices you bear before He will support you and love you through them.
Read Psalm 37 and remember "the wicked" can represent your beloved enemies on a day when they are not flowing with the Lord's will; it is not wrong to recognize wrong in those you love. In fact, the more negative and harmful approach is to sublimate your hurt and to refuse to acknowledge that you have been wronged. Where there is no acknowledgement of injury no grace of forgiveness can be extended to those who have caused you harm.
You are wise to utilize caution; if you were to pray God's wrath upon the heads of your beloved enemies you would cause great harm. God's people are not to curse one another, and so let love rule your prayers as you extend to them the same grace you have received: "Father, forgive them, they know not what they do."
You have stumbled through a sinful response to sin that was done unto you. Receive God's forgiveness now, and extend it to those beloved enemies who caused you harm.
Scripture: "If the LORD delights in a man’s way, he makes his steps firm; though he stumble, he will not fall, for the LORD upholds him with his hand" (Psalm 37:23-24).
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