Thursday, October 30, 2008

Love Your Enemies...

I'm reminded about the sermon in my church last week about loving our enemies and asking us to pray for them. It's never an easy thing to do especially when someone had betrayed you, hurt you so much and causes so much trouble in your once peaceful life and what more if what they did leave an effect for the rest of your life. How could you possibly forgive someone like that? God commanded us to love and pray for our enemies.

I know that command long ago but it took me years to finally accept and practice that command. When we think of our "enemies", we must remember about our own self. We are just like an "enemy" of God because we hurt God whenever we sin but yet He never gave up on us. He continued to love us and waiting each day for us to turn back to Him and when we run back to Him, He never even mentioned about what we had done that hurt His very heart. "He keeps no records of our wrong..." He forgave our sins when He send His only Son Jesus to die on the cross. He Forgave us even before we sin...He knows.

That's why we need to forgive our "enemies" and pray that they shall one day be our brothers and sisters. God created all of us and we are all His children. He loves each and everyone of us. If God can forgive a sinful person like us, why are we not able to forgive our "enemies"? "Not by might, not by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord".

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