LOVE AND ENEMIES

I think it just, that the first post be about Love.
The greatest commandment of them all.
'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind'
(Matthew 22:37, Deut 6:5) NIV.
In every version, the message is the same, and it calls for us Christians to love God.
I suppose it is easy to Love God, for we can easily see the things He has done for us.
It is easy to Love God, because we understand just how he loved us.
By sending His only son to die for us.
So we love God.

To love our brothers and neighbors can also be easily done.
Because in many instances, they give us so much love back.

Love for our enemies though is not so easy.
By enemies,in Luke 6:27-36, Jesus meant people who hate you.
Not people who you hate. In fact, a christian should not hate anyone by nature of being a christian

It is important that we love those who hate us.
In doing so, we
1.Are rewarded and will be the sons of the most high, because He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
2.Purified. By having love for our brothers and sisters, we are obeying the truth and hence purifying ourselves. (1 Peter 1:22)
3. Cover our sins. 1Peter 4:8 explains that,we should love, for love covers over a multitude of sins.

In many verses, i understand that our love should be unconditional. Loving everyone we come across because, that is the way He loves us. And if we are to be Holy, and perfect as His sons and daughters, just as He is. It should not matter whether that person likes us or how much they love us for us to love them back.

If we love those who love us only, what credit is it to us? Even 'sinners' love those who love them.
Be different, a christian with the Love that Christ bestowed in us.

Love can be shown by a smile, a hug, kind words, complements and of course help spiritually, financially and all sectors of life.

Share the Love!!