Loving Your Enemy

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[manakeagie]

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Oh yeah people should borrow the same for a better living...

[nassiwa]

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@ manakeagie...sure, i agree. You will grow younger as you will not have to worry about your enemy anymore. No stress.

[Emmanuel]

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One discovery there is for me is that when you love your enemy , you grow younger each day that passes ...

That is right because you will not have time to think of bad or evil ways to repay your enemy back and thereby concentrate on good thought of life that make you look younger.

[manakeagie]

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One discovery there is for me is that when you love your enemy , you grow younger each day that passes ...

[nassiwa]

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It is indeed hard to love your enemy but i think we need to try as we can and love them. It is the only way we can get over the bad feeling about them.

[manakeagie]

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What God Mother has said is very true... Its really too theoretical than practical because Its very difficult To love your enemies,,,,

[nsodo]

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The bible say a lot but butting them into practice is another difficult thing because there is no way you can tell me to love some one who is eve bewitching me it can not just work.

[betalife]

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Pet according to our culture in Africa is nothing but domestic animals we kept, fed and at the end turn to a source of meat for human consumption. This scenario should be discouraged as the world is changing to wildlife conservation as well conserving the domestic animals like dog, cat, guinea pig, birds, rats and others both aquatic in nature as well as terrestrial.
As an African, I have done so much research and derived an inference with respect to the above statement. I have been trained as a vetenary expert as well as conservationist. I am promoting wildlife and domestic animals conservation.  I want to discourage the idea of consuming these pets as they have their own advantages in the ecology system.
Looking at the western world, they care so much about their domestic animals to the extent that their pets are insured just like human beings. They value the existence of pets in their community so much............... .......

[computermindz]

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it is truly theoretical than practical but one could try

[Godmother]

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The truth of the matter is that loving your enemy is more theoretical than practical. I know it was commanded in the Bible, but its quite difficult

[Emmanuel]

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A fantastic write up.

[computermindz]

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You have heard that it was said, "Love your neighbor and hate your enemy." But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous (Matt 5:43-46).

If you are a leader you will have conflict sooner or later. How you manage conflict will determine how good of a leader you will be. Jesus handled conflict in many different ways. Sometimes he confronted the issue head-on, other times He ignored the accusation and went on His way. Sometimes He chose to wash the feet of those who attacked Him.

Dr. Martin Luther King, father of the United States civil rights movement modeled conflict management in the following way:

"On Christmas Day, 1957, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a sermon at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. It was based on this passage and the sermon title was, 'Loving Your Enemy.' Through the course of his sermon, Dr. King suggested three ways by which we can do just that.

First, we must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. Such forgiveness doesn't mean that we ignore the wrong committed against us. Rather it means that we will no longer allow the wrong to be a barrier to the relationship. Forgiveness, according to King, 'is a catalyst creating the atmosphere necessary for a fresh start and a new beginning.'

Second, we must recognize that the wrong we've suffered doesn't entirely represent the other person's identity. We need to acknowledge that our opponent, like each one of us, possesses both bad and good qualities. We must choose to find the good and focus on it.

Third, we must not seek to defeat or humiliate our opponent, but to win his or her friendship and understanding. Such an attitude flows not from ourselves, but from God as his unconditional love works through us.

As followers of Christ who seek to lead as He led, we must remember that the more freely we forgive, the more clearly we reveal the nature of our Heavenly Father."*

Today, be proactive about forgiving those who have been the source of pain in your life.

Ref:- TGIF Today God Is First Volume 2, by Os Hillman
12-29-2009