Love Your Enemies

"But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you."Matthew 5:44

At post election time it seems opposing parties get hateful to each other. Didn’t God say to love your enemies and pray for those who used you? You are to love even those people who tell lies about you, gossip, want to behead you, and so forth. 

This kind of love comes only from one source, The Holy Spirit,  which you get when you become born again. Getting baptized as an infant doesn’t all of a sudden make you love people but it is walking daily with the Lord asking the Holy Spirit to infiltrate you. 

Look around you and think about Jesus walking beside you. He loved people who threw rocks at him and spit on him. Could you do that? Even those people who interpret the Bible to cover their sinful behavior you are still supposed to love. Let God take care of the wrongs and you simply reach out and smile and be kind. 

PRAYER: Your word is truth yet today some churches even want to condemn it and edit it. I know your heart is broken. Father help me be so grounded in the word that I recognize a counterfeit doctrine. In Jesus’ name. Amen.