Matthew 5:43-44 (NKJV) 43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 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.
Bless those who curse you. Love your enemies. Pray for those who spitefully use you.
That is a tough pill for some of us to swallow! It’s a tall order that many of us have a hard time fulfilling.
It’s easy to curse someone when they curse you. You know… an eye for en eye? But Jesus taught us a new and different way. We are no longer to take an eye for an eye.
Luke 6:31 (NKJV) And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise.
So if someone cusses us out and gives us a piece of their mind, it isn’t OK if we do the same back to them, even when we really, really want to!
If you’re in your car and someone lays on their horn and starts waving their hands at you, it’s NOT OK to do the same thing back!
Like I said, this isn’t always easy to walk out, but it is a necessity. We need to learn to “turn the other cheek”, walk away and ask God to bless that person. We need to pray that God will bless them, prosper them and shine His light in their life.
There will be days when this is harder than at other times and there will be times when we will have harsh words right on the tip of our tongue to hurl back at someone who insults us or speaks evil of us, but we need to restrain those words and be kind to that person, even when it hurts.
If we will commit to doing this, and then start to walk it out, God will help make it easier for us and before we know it, it will become second nature.
Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808
401-315-0902
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