"If your enemies are hungry, give them food to eat. If they are thirsty, give them water to drink. You will heap burning coals of shame on their heads, and the Lord will reward you."
Do you have any enemies? Is anyone threatening you, or your family, your religion, or your country? The One Truth Today tells us what the Lord expects us to do to those we consider our enemies. Our flesh tells us to do something different then God. Tit for tat is the fleshly, human answer to an attack. Many want to escalate the retaliation and punish those they hate. How has that been working for us? Families, countries, religions, and individuals carry on in a never ending story of hatred, death and destruction. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. It is time for you to stop acting in the flesh and listening to the Spirit of God! LOVE YOUR ENEMIES!
In Matthew, Jesus Christ tells us to LOVE YOUR ENEMIES. We are to bless them that curse us and do good to them that hate us. We are to pray for those who despitefully use us and persecute us. In Romans the Lord tells us, "do not be overcome with evil , but overcome evil with good". Here in Proverbs we are given specific instructions on how to handle our enemies.
If your enemy is hungry, give him food. If you enemy is thirsty, give him water to drink. LOVE YOUR ENEMIES! If you have the courage and wisdom to do so, your enemy will have burning coals of shame on their head. It interrupts the cycle of hatred and violence and your enemy will have to respond in an entirely different way. The Lord will reward you, that is His promise!
The best part of taking the high road and obeying the Lord is that He will reward our behavior!
Break the cycle of hatred and test the Lord. Substitute Love and you can get a different result that will stop the insanity. Give your enemy comfort and support and show goodness and kind behavior and it will affect the way they think about you. Put God to the test and use His Word today. Take someone you think of as an enemy, someone you have a strained relationship with and apply the Proverb. Give them your love, your attention, your help. If it is a father or mother a sister or brother or anyone else, try it today. LOVE YOUR ENEMIES!
