Loving Our Enemies

“But to you who are willing to listen, I say, love your enemies! Do good to those who hate you.

Luke 6:27 (NLT)

Love is more of action than a feeling. So to love is to be patient, kind, to not count any wrongs , and to not boast (1 Corinthians 13 : 4-8). So when God says to love our enemies He is telling us to view them the way He does. With love.

“If your enemies are hungry, give them food to eat. If they are thirsty, give them water to drink.”

Proverbs 25:21

Another important thing we see here is that we should do on to other what we would want done to us. If we are hungry wouldn’t we take food from even our enemy if offered ? To be prideful to the point of not taking food from our enemy can lead to us starving so we have no reason to dismay there act of kindness. To love our enemy is to remember that they are human. And just like you wouldn’t let your child starve , don’t let your enemy starve either .

“If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God's secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn't love others, I would be nothing.If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it;* but if I didn't love others, I would have gained nothing. Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud

or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.”

1 Corinthians 13:1-6 (NLT)