Love your enemies...do good...pray
" You have heard it said , 'You shall love your nieghbor and hate your enemy, But, I say to you, love your enemies, do good to those who use you and to pray for those who persecute you so that you may be sons of Your Father who is in heaven ...for if you love those who love you, what reward do you hav e?’ Matthew 5 About 80% of my time meeting with people as a pastor's wife and as a life coach in my church is striving together to come up with a healthy understanding of how to obey the command of Jesus in this passage of Matthew 5. They are coming to me mostly because they have conflict in their hearts as theydon't know what to do when they have been wronged or hurt and they have a desire to honor God’s word and His commands to love and forgive. When we read the scriptures together, specifically this one, there is always a visceral reaction. I feel it with them as it feels wrong and weighty (nearly impossible). Especially if you have been the victim of egregious si...
