"Love your enemies"- Jesus.
"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?" 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 don't know what to do and when we read that scripture together 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 sin and evil at the hands of another. The conflict is obvious. If we love God, we are to obey His commands and there is no arguing with the com...
