I read the story of how the son of a former attorney general was assasinated by a military junta because the man resigned due to ideological differences. His closest friend whom he brought into the family to be part of their family was the one who betrayed him and gave the assasins the information on his whereabout.
In so many ways, people repay good with evil not only through assasination. Speaking evil of your benefactor and smearing their image is evil. Taking advantage of people's kindness is another way of repaying good with evil. The list goes on. As little as these may look, God detest such behaviour.
I know good relationships do go sour sometimes. I know that a good man yesterday may become a beast tomorrow. All these possibilities are known to me. However, we need to always acknowledge the good done to us at all times and endeavour to manage relationship wisely even when it seems things are not working out.
You don't go against someone who once helped you because of one faux pas. No, it is not done. Such is not even expected of a believer.
Your disagreement with people can be handled with utmost respect for their person without smearing their image or finding ways to pull them down.
Sometimes, when people tell me about what someone else did to them, I'm always looking out for an acknowledgement of one good thing the person did to them in time past. Ungratefulness is one of the signs of the endtime ( 2 Tim3:1-2).
How ungrateful people paint their benefactors bad because of one mistake or error is a demonic syndrome we should be wary about.
Some persons left the church where they were raised, fed with God's word and given a platform for growth only to turn their back against the pastor because of a little disagreement and speak evil of him everywhere. That is bad. Most pastors have experienced this at one time or the other.
I am not in anyway teaching that you stay loyal to error of men. No, that is not what I am teaching. I am simply teaching that you should not repay good with evil even if it is as little as smearing the image of someone who once helped you regardless of your disagreement with them presently.
As we grow, we may differ with people ideologically and in certain principles but that shouldn't breed hatred.
There are things unbelievers do that shouldn't be mentioned among believers. If you are fond of repaying good with evil, please repent. Failure to repent will lead to a harvest of the very things you are doing.
Do not forget the golden rule: "Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you. This is the essence of all that is taught in the law and the prophets"( Matthew 7:12 NLT). Repaying good with evil is wickedness and ingratitude with a promise of harvest.
