..Love your Enemy..

I remember several years ago when I truly knew I was saved, I ate up the words in the bible. I couldn't get enough. I'd read at night until my eyes just wouldn't stay open any more, kinda like mylotters mylotting. Anyways, there was this lady at work who knew I was having a very difficult time in life at that time. They knew I had been saved and was changing daily. She loved to come in and tell everyone what she had for dinner the night before that her mom'nlaw cooked. It would be like a feast, and she knew I was barely eating and had a teenage daughter and we were making it by the skin of our teeth. She was so mean to me on purpose. I told God one day, I said 'God I know you want me to pray for my enemy, but this is going to be the hardest thing I've ever done, so here goes.' I learned later by continuing to feed on God's word, that when you pray sincerely blessings on your enemy, that 'He will make your enemies to be at peace with you'.(that's scripture). Also, I've learned that you gain compassion and try to look at why the person is like that. Sometimes you can see a reason and pray about that. Other times, they just seem downright mean, and enjoy seeing someone hurt and struggling. Nevertheless, if you do what the Word says, you will eventually get to the point that you can actually be friends from a distance, so to speak, to that person. When He says love them, He actually means to be a light for Him and in your actions, be kind even tho they've acted horrible. It's fun to actually see the 'awe' on their faces when they said something very ugly and hurtful about you, and you go home and read scripture and ask God that you can go back the next day as tho nothing happened, and actually not feel hurt or mad. Ask him for you to behave the way He would want you to behave. Actually go in smiling sincerely, not faking it, cause God can make that happen. Because I prayed and ask Him to help me with that, I went in sincerely in a good mood. I know people thought I would come in sulled and giving looks, but I didn't. ONLY God can make that happen. It's fun to see God work when you go by His word.

not really an easy thing to do. but to love your enemies because it pisses them off, then why not.i might as well try.:)

To love an enemy is not easy if a person is not yet renewed in the Spirit of God or converted to Christ or born again. Even some people who claim to be born again cannot even love their enemies. It is only through the working of God's Spirit and the submission of the person who is already born again to God's Spirit that he/she can obey this teaching.

Hi, I am not too sure if I can do that. I am just human being. I will just try to forget it and will not hostile, but to love? I think it is hard. Have a nice day. Cheers,

The Bible is never wrong when it says "Love your enemy." As a human being, we find it hard to forgive someone who sinned against us but God has every reason to say it. Unless you forgive those who sinned you, your sin will not be forgiven. That is written in the Bible. Though it takes time to forgive someone, we should still do it because that is an order from God. Try to give reasons why this person did some bad things about you, then you will soon realize that it needs to happen. So let's love one another and make our Creator happy too!

a saint or a person with total disregard of himself are the persons i would know who would do that easily. i am not a vengeful person but i still find it hard to do that, especially when you have experienced so much pain and hardship because of that person. they say that time heals all wounds, so we should wait for the time when the hurt is not too palpable or the hate is not too consuming before we can forgive them. i guess, it is a part of being human that stops us from forgiving those persons who had hurt us.

i cant love my enemy but i can "forget" them n not think of them, avoid them as much as i can and love god more ~ ask him the keep them away from me .. yes ! he did, one of my lovers niece actually badmouthed me into making his family hate me, she was only 17 then ~ 16 years later when finally after fights n married him, i was told she was not in this country anymore she married someone from overseas n has been away for almost 6 years now .. cheers

I'd be a hypocrite if I say YES. It's never easy to forgive and forget that easily. It hurts even more when the ones who hurt you are people you love. Right? But then again, it's always better to be happy, and to be in that state of euphoria requires a lot of forgiving and forgetting.

I'd be a lying hypocrite if I say yes, it is easy for me to love my enemy. Hatred, anger and indifference are the usual feelings toward an enemy, and hate is such a strong word opposing to love. Sometimes, the scriptures are really easier said than done.

I think it is difficult for every one... unless they are saints, highly diciplined people or people of the God. Following this words may be silly to recular people, but it is big doctrine to truly religious people. Good luck and happy Mylotter!

Love your enemy, It is easy to say than do it!! Jesus told us to love your enemy meaning even you hate this person you must love him whoever he is. Love is many splendor thing!!!

hello. this aint easy. its because the reason we have enemies is because we hate them. either they have wronged us or betrayed us. we also lost our trust on them so how can we love them. but the bible is right. we should love our enemies. why? its because its easy to live life when we do not have hatred in our hearts. we are just consuming big oart of our hearts cursing someone who does not care about what we feel. its not really to love our enemies. its to forgive them and forget what had happened tthat just brought us pain and misery.