Love Your Enemies, Say What?!

“But I say to you who are listening now to Me: [in order to heed, make it a practice to] love your enemies, treat well (do good to, act nobly toward) those who detest you and pursue you with hatred, Invoke blessings upon and pray for the happiness of those who curse you, implore God’s blessing (favor) upon those who abuse you [who revile, reproach, disparage, and high-handedly misuse you].” There’s a mouth full here about your enemies. Treating them well by doing good to them, acting nobly toward them even though they detest you, and pursue you with hatred. Can you invoke blessings upon them and pray for their happiness even though they curse you. Most of us will probably say, absolutely not, with attitude. Well, christian (which means little christ), the mature in Christ will be challenged with this command from Almighty God. Yes it’s the words of Jesus to love our enemies because He loved us first, while we were considered God’s enemies because of our former sin nature. The ability to walk in this seemingly tall order from God, lies in our hearts. The seeds of our newly recreated human spirits are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, humility, and self-control. As we develope these fruit, by being badly persecuted by our enemies, we grow and our aroma will have the sweet presence of God emanating from us without saying a word. Your becoming the little christ in the earth for the Lord’s highest elevation over the evil in this world. Nothing will move you from your position in Christ. Saints of old have held their ground to the death. Most of us won’t see that level of persecution in this country. God would never give any command unless He already supplied the power for us to carry it out. Love your enemies.