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Valarie
June 08, 2008 at 6:28am
Oh Grant! You have no idea how badly I needed to read this blog this morning of all mornings. Thank you for writing. It is still hard...still very hard to do what is to be done...but this helps me to know better how. Thanks again.
Brother Todd
June 08, 2008 at 7:05am
Grant, love is action, not just emotion.  If we only love those who love us, what credit is that to us? This kind of love is super-natural and comes from God. Great lesson for us all!
Mike n Laura
June 08, 2008 at 9:55am
Val's comment proves it Grant....you are needed! Thanks for this word from your heart..and the Lord's!
Joey
June 08, 2008 at 10:55am

I pray for my enemies.  Internal and external.  One of bosses told me something once, he said, "Joey, you are very good at killing people with kindness".  I was surprised. 

If you do it over and over and over, it becomes habit.  I want to live in peace, therefore I step outside when people argue, or I ask them to step outside, or go for a drive.

Valarie
June 08, 2008 at 3:24pm
Wow Kingdom! We can always count on you to jump in with the encouraging, positive comments can't we! I don't always look at my enemies in such a tone. As a matter of fact...I don't think I have ever looked at my enemies in that tone. It is simply hard to love them. I want to love them as God loves them. That is where the difficult part comes in ....I am not righteous enough to think that I should have the same authority that God does!! EVER!
Pastor Tim
June 08, 2008 at 7:42pm
You have spelled out what one of the toughest things Christians are called to do which is to love our enemies.
Thanks or the reminder!
CinderBarbieLuWho
June 08, 2008 at 7:48pm
Good blog :) Ok, I love 'em.....but I don't hafta like 'em.........LOLOLOLOL
Grant
June 08, 2008 at 10:50pm
Val, Tod, Mike, thanks friends.

Juan, as with most statements from Jesus, there is the other side of the coin. Jesus himself will still judge that some people have to go to hell. I suppose there is the question, is the love? I believe it is, if it is giving people what they want, the opposite of heaven. Sadly, I have met one or two people who actually "want" to go to hell. Sigh!

Joey, good advice.

KW, I don't know where you get your theology that the OT God is not what God is like. That is real screwed up man. Jesus is called Lord in the NT, which in the Greek is the equivalent of YHWH, God of the OT. That and many other reasons are why orthodox Christians believe much different to what you espoused. As God of the OT, Jesus was teaching us that law is not the answer, yet we know that HE is the same, yesterday, today and forever.

Tim and Cindy, I hear ya's. Thanks!
Grant
June 09, 2008 at 8:29pm
Yes, I would defend my family too. :)
LV
June 09, 2008 at 8:59pm
Great posting Grant! This is the crux of our Christian walk. 

Can we in faith offer ourselves and all that we own to someone who wants us dead? "No way!" is the first thought that come into our minds because of the flesh. This is where Jesus' words and teachings become difficult yet significant to us as Christ followers...

To answer Juan, yes we should have forgiven OBL after 911... as tough as that would seem. The first thought that I had (still have...) is to "bomb them back to the stone-age" as I have heard it stated by some friends in the Armed Service.

We fight the flesh each and every day in small and large decisions. Some are easier to make and to follow the path the Lord set before us. Others are more difficult but none the less as important because that shows the world our true character. I told my co-workers the exact difficulty I had in trying to get both of these emotions to come together into one single response because if I follow the Lord's teachings I fail to live what I feel in my heart is the best response to such acts. I know that my own personal testimony on this got them thinking, too.

Should we stone the gays and lesbians because that is what our flesh tells us what "should" be done (scripture is clear that this is a sin)? Yet Jesus also said that we should only let those who are without sin throw the first stone... don't see a whole bunch of hands raised to say that they qualify on that one...

This is why it is not easy to walk His walk... and why it was necessary for Him to act as a sacrifice for us.

God knows that we cannot do it by ourselves.

Grant
June 10, 2008 at 7:27am
Great comments LV.
Kathy
June 10, 2008 at 7:31pm
This is excellent!
I _ _ _ _ Some1
June 13, 2008 at 6:10am
i posted it on mine so everyone can see how weel u right
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