"LOVE YOUR ENEMIES! Do good to them. Your reward from heaven will be very great and you will truly be acting as children of the Most High."
Do you have any enemies? Has anyone been wicked or hateful to you? Every country has enemies and they can be easily identified. Do you know who your enemies are? The One Truth Today is that God wants you to LOVE YOUR ENEMIES! Just as you might desire that your enemies stop hating you and start loving you, it is your responsibility to start loving your enemies and stop hating them. The Lord wants us to do good to those who despite fully use us. The world has a different idea of how to handle an enemy. When it comes to your enemies what do you think is the right thing to do? What should a child of the Most High do?
God is compassionate and merciful to those who sin and are evil. He is sympathetic and forgiving to those who respond to Him. Even though the world would consider these God's enemies, the Lord has a different response, one of Love and forgiveness. As believer's we need to be just like Him, both individually and as a country. We should emulate the attributes of God. If you have an enemy you should be kind to them and do good to them. You should not expect anything in return. Be charitable to those who are selfish, be good to those who are wicked. Your reward will be great and sent down from Heaven. You will be a child of God!
The natural response to someone who hates us is to hate them even more. Think of all the centuries of struggle between different groups that has never ended and continues to escalate. They all justify their actions by saying that they had it coming because of what they did to us. Thus the struggle continues forever and continuous harm is done with apparent justification. Can this insanity ever end? The Lord Jesus Christ has the solution. If you have an enemy, do good to them. If want to end the hatred and violence, LOVE YOUR ENEMIES. Your reward will be very great, in contrast to continuing struggles. You will be acting and believing in God and His Word and the reward will be here on earth as well as in Heaven.
