Love Your Enemies, Part II

It would be tempting to just gloss over last week's post and forget about it, but I ask again: Can you imagine how much better God's church would be if we all strived to do this?

Maybe it might be more powerful to hear it said in this manner as opposed to a stick-figure cartoon:



It really is a shame that even in churches, God's people don't always do it for one another. Even sadder is the fact that rejecting Jesus' command is ultimately rejecting Jesus himself!

But do you want to know something funny? All it takes is one person to take Jesus' command seriously for God to unite people in Him. Ideally it would be from both sides but if just one person in an adversarial relationship decided to love their adversary and pray for him or her, it is easy to see how resolution can and will take place.

Are you willing to obey the one whom you call "Lord" and be the one?

Love Your Enemies

A short cartoon made by a friend of Shawn Kwon's...

Difficult to do, but how much better off would this world be if God's children took this command seriously? How much better off would churches be?

Luke 6:27-28
27"But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.

Jesus lived what he taught:
Romans 5:6-10
6You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. 8But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him! 10For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!

Sometimes we can get intimidated by not knowing the Bible very well (a situation that you realize that you have the power to remedy, right? but i digress...) but really Jesus' commands were not rocket science.

It's just so difficult to obey sometimes that we go through all kinds of mental gymnastics just so we can feel better about our disobedience with tough commands like these.

Don't settle for mediocrity - be a disciple and obey all that Jesus has commanded.