Forgiven #14
"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'
"But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,
"that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
"For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
"And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so?
"Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
Matthew 5:43-48, www.solascriptura.com
Jesus, When You tell us the rain falls on the just and the unjust, You remind us as long as we are on this earth there will be trials for everyone. Part of the difficulty lies in personal relationships where some people seem more likable than others. We naturally tend to like those who are like us. But what we seem to miss is the fact that every soul is a soul You created and every person is either moving toward being like You or away from being like You (Your Word already taught us that being lukewarm, trying to drift along without a real commitment is an error).
Help us today, to look at all people as able to move toward You and guide us as we have opportunities to enrich someone else's life, by pointing them toward You. You call us to perfection and we need Your constant companionship for that to ever be true. In Jesus' Holy name, we pray, amen.
Bruce Caldwell
"But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,
"that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
"For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
"And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so?
"Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
Matthew 5:43-48, www.solascriptura.com
Jesus, When You tell us the rain falls on the just and the unjust, You remind us as long as we are on this earth there will be trials for everyone. Part of the difficulty lies in personal relationships where some people seem more likable than others. We naturally tend to like those who are like us. But what we seem to miss is the fact that every soul is a soul You created and every person is either moving toward being like You or away from being like You (Your Word already taught us that being lukewarm, trying to drift along without a real commitment is an error).
Help us today, to look at all people as able to move toward You and guide us as we have opportunities to enrich someone else's life, by pointing them toward You. You call us to perfection and we need Your constant companionship for that to ever be true. In Jesus' Holy name, we pray, amen.
Bruce Caldwell
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