No. 18 Have You HUgged Your Backstabber Today?

“But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for He makes the sun rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.” Matthew 5:44 

“Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who abuse you.” Luke 6:27-36

Do you have an enemy?

Is there or has there ever been someone in your life who obviously hates you and wants evil to befall you? Someone who puts his or her foot out to make you trip when you walk by or someone who tells lies to ruin your reputation? Has anyone poisoned your coffee lately?

In nature, the sun rises, and the rain falls on you both. Human nature is more selective. Human nature only wants to shine where there is already light. Human nature prefers to make the dark even darker. Human nature makes you behave like your enemy, fight back and try to win by hurting him more, or if you are the sinister passive-aggressive type human nature makes you subvert your enemy.

Jesus Christ, in His luminous supernatural superman way, tells you to walk on water. He tells you to override human nature, even the passive-aggressive type, by loving in tangible ways the person who wants to destroy you. Why?!

This command begins to make sense when you understand that He is telling us to be the light of the world as He is. We too are required to destroy darkness. Love of enemies is the litmus test for immortality.

I hope you have no enemy, but if you do, that you can love him or her. Some enemies will dissolve as fast as the wicked witch of the west. The more insidious enemies, will see the overtures as weakness and go for the kill. Don’t worry; this is when being superman really comes in handy.

Love your enemies; our world needs more supermen (i.e.: luminous, immortal, supernatural children of God) in it.