Loving Our Enemies
"You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous."
Matthew 5:43-45
Loving those who hurt us is hard. For me it isn't necssarily hard when someone is doing something to me but when someone is saying things or doing something that is meant to hurt someone I care about my first reaction is to want to do something about it. You want to react and say something back and it takes all of the strength that God gives me to fight doing that. The Lord says for one vengence is His. Two we are called to love our enemies.
We need to love those who have hurt us. We need in a sense to be the bigger person. When we do that the world around us takes notice because they don't understand. To a good amount of people it would make sense to them for us to fight back and do something about it. But honestly when we do that sometimes it brings on even more trouble at times. That is why vengence is the Lord's. He will take care of those who come against us.
So learn to love your enemies. Learn to love others with all that you are. Forgive them for their shortcomings. Look to Jesus and see that He forgave all of us when He went on the cross and took our sin upon Himself. As He hung their on the cross He cried out "Forgive them Father for they do not know what they are doing." That is the way we need to be. We need to mirror Jesus. Who when being persecuted He said nothing against their accusations.
As long as we are right in God's eyes it really doesn't matter what everyone else is saying. God is with us helping us pull through each and every situation. We are just called to obey and follow His Word and when we do everything will fall into place and God's love will be what is seen.
