“Love Your Enemies…” (“Lesser Known Quotes of Jesus” Week 2 of 7)

We don’t tend to like people who don’t like us. We can sense it, right? All the subtle cues add up to make us feel like someone is avoiding us, like they’re trying to end conversations early, and like they’d rather be somewhere else… every time. So LIKING people can be challenging. But LOVING people, especially those we’d call enemies?

It would be easy to believe Jesus is talking about foreign nations and wartime enemies… but that’s not what He means. It would be nice if we saw our enemies suffering for their sins and we could pray for their deliverance. But to watch enemies prosper while we suffer and still pray for them is… well, it’s our command.

Scriptures today: 5:43-47 // Romans 2:3-4

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