Who Are Your Enemies?

 "If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the Lord will reward you." Proverbs 25:21-22

The Bible clearly says to love one another. The world we live in today thinks Christians don’t love people if they disagree with them morally even going so far to call Christians haters. Or that we are to roll over backwards to accommodate false religions who hate us. 

You can love people without loving their lifestyle choices or things they may be doing. The way to win others to the Lord is through kindness. Even those countries where the primary religion hates Westerners and loathes followers of Christ are people we are supposed to love. They may shout “infidel” at us and try to blow us up but our job is to pray for them to know Jesus. 

Jesus had many who hated him yet he never hated back. He loved and  set the example for us to love. Even the woman caught in the act of adultery who was about to be stoned to death, Jesus said “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.”(John 8:7) Pretty straightforward I would say. 

PRAYER: Sometimes it takes all I can humanly muster to love those people who don’t love me but you have commanded us to love one another. Help me love others through you with your love. In Jesus’ name. Amen.