Sometimes You Can't Take Your Actions Back

Let's Get Real - Scripture Day 344
March 8, 2016

The Bible often records horrible actions of people, and sometimes the results are horrible too...

"Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the women of the land. And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humiliated her.

And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her. So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get me this girl for my wife.”

Genesis 34:1-4 ESV

RANDY: So Shechem raped Dinah, the daughter of Jacob.  After he had forced himself on her, he fell in love with her and decided to marry her.  So he asked his father to arrange it.

But it was too late, the damage had been done.  In the end, Dinah brothers ended up killing all the men in the entire village that Shechem came from, including him and his father, as revenge for raping their sister.

Jacob condemned the actions of his sons, but he could not stop them from taking vengeance for the rape.

The lesson is clear, sometimes we cannot take our actions back, and the consequences may be far more than we ever imagined was possible.