THOSE THAT ARE UNLOVING

We seem to distance ourselves from people who have difficulty being “loving”.

Nevertheless, once when I went to church in Vernon, British Columbia, we had a leader who said in a speech:

“Those that are unloving, are the ones that need the love the most”.

 By Ron Burnham

Is it hard to do.

Yes, very hard to automatically love and care for somebody who have a hard edge, being rude, having cruel language or acting standoffish, or somebody who has chosen to cut you out of their life. It is much easier to cut off contact and feel that we are “in the right”, but “it is not the Lords way”.

I believe that for those who have chosen the path of Christ, there is no choice: We need to chose the Lords way, and that is the way of not only forgiveness, but to “love Our Enemies”.

In the new Testament is says:

Luke 6: 27

 ¶ But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you.

Mathew 5:43:

43 ¶ Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.

44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

It might not always work since some people are extremely stubborn, but that is “their call”.  Not your call.

Vibeke Lindhardt

19 June 2018

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