March 7, 2011
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When someone gives you a hard time…
43-47“You’re familiar with the old written law, ‘Love your friend,’ and its unwritten companion, ‘Hate your enemy.’ I’m challenging that. I’m telling you to love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst. When someone gives you a hard time, respond with the energies of prayer, for then you are working out of your true selves, your God-created selves. This is what God does. He gives his best—the sun to warm and the rain to nourish—to everyone, regardless: the good and bad, the nice and nasty. If all you do is love the lovable, do you expect a bonus? Anybody can do that. If you simply say hello to those who greet you, do you expect a medal? Any run-of-the-mill sinner does that.
Matthew 5:46 (The Message)
We all have people that we know are harder to get along with than other’s. Instead of fighting with them or simply avoiding them, we should LOVE them..show them God’s love by responding in kindness, in love, even when they treat us wrong. It isn’t easy for, sure…we have to pray and ask God to help us. And remember that God loves us even when we’re at our most unloveable…so we should try out best to love other’s even when they are most unloveable, too.
