APRIL 25
MATTHEW 5:44_But I say unto you, love your enemies…
Jesus continually points out love as an action.
Love requires dedication.
Love requires courage.
Love requires grit to accept rejection, but not be defeated.
Love requires faith in Jesus’ radical teachings to work.
If love requires all this of me, I want my love to go to the one of my choosing. The object of my affection. Here we go again! Jesus messes with my heart and mind when He says love my enemies. I don’t want to love my enemies! They are my enemies! I don’t like them! They cause me pain and suffering. They cause people I love pain and suffering. If God won’t let me seek revenge on them—at least let me hate them!
Besides, there is another problem—I don’t know how to love them. It doesn’t come naturally to me to love people who hurt me, or people I love. Jesus asks too much.
In all my moaning and groaning, I use the key (the Bible). It unlocks my spirit, then I can trust in Philippians 4:13 (KJV), “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
PRAYER
Lord Jesus, I don’t know how to love my enemies, help me. In the powerful name of Jesus, Amen.
Christ strengthens me—I can achieve anything with Him!
The Works of Her Hands 