Encouragement

Love Your Enemy: Luke 6:35 KJV

by Dr. Willie B White
09/14/23
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But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

Getting back into my frequent inspirational writings while reflecting on the sinful conditions of our world, I went to Luke 6: 27-37 KJV, which speaks to the law of love.

Verse 27 tells us that we are to love our enemies, not with an emotional love, but with the love of God, which incorporates kindness, compassion, and peace.  We know that love overcame hate through Jesus’ sacrificial death on the cross, so we, as believers in Christ, are to emulate His love for all humanity.

Another point to loving our enemy does not mean that we as Christians are to stand idly by and watch and allow evil to bring harm to innocent people.  Still, to the contrary, we are to confront evil wherever and whenever it occurs.  We are to follow Jesus’ model by proclaiming the truth as truth wins all the time.

Our background verses ask profound questions: what profit is there in doing good to those who love us?  The gain is in glorifying God by loving those who do not love us.  At one point, we all were enemies of God, but thank God for Jesus and His sin atonement; we, as Christians, now have a loving relationship with God.

One final point on living our enemy is that we do good without expecting any good in return from our enemy but look to God for His reward, which is greater than any reward man can give.

Loving our enemy, we pray, asking God to change their hearts, remove the hatred, and replace it with love.

Love covers a multitude of sins; this was proven on the cross at Calvary.

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