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“But to you who are listening I say:
Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who
curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. 29 If someone slaps you
on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not
withhold your shirt from them. 30 Give to everyone who asks you, and
if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. 31 Do to
others as you would have them do to you.
32
“If you love those who love you,
what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. 33 And
if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even
sinners do that. 34 And if you lend to those from whom you expect
repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting
to be repaid in full. 35 But love your enemies, do good to them, and
lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be
great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the
ungrateful and wicked. 36 Be merciful, just as your Father is
merciful.
Luke 6:27-36
I go to Watermark
Community Church in Dallas Texas and the pastor Todd Wagner used this verse in
his sermon on Sunday and it made me think a lot about the way that I love
others. It is so easy to love the people
who treat you right and who love you because like it says in this passage even
sinners love people who love them.
But as a follower of
Christ I am called to love people even when they make it really hard to do
so. God has loved me through so much
that I did not deserve to be loved or forgiven for any of it. So if I am called to love people the way that
God loves us that means I am supposed to forgive those who have hurt me even if
what they did is “unforgivable” and love them even if they have made themselves
“unlovable” to me.
If I am honest I
have such a hard time with this because of the pain some people cause but I
know that everyone makes mistakes and make bad choices. So I am learning to forgive and to love people
in spite of what they have done or said to me.
They are no less deserving of love because of mistakes that they make
just like I hope I am no less deserving of love because of the mistakes I have
made.
I mean think about
how much God loves us and how amazing that is to think that not just someone
but the God of the universe loves us no matter what we have done to him. No matter how many mistakes we make he loves
us and forgives us. I wanted to share
this because I know that it’s a struggle a lot of people deal with because we
are human but I just thought maybe if we could see how much God has forgiven us
and loved us that maybe it would help us forgive those who have hurt us and
love them.
Just remember the
greatest message is not going to be one that is preached from a stage it is the
way that we love people each and every day!!
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