Luke 6:35

Verse

Luke 6:35

But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

  • Love
  • Forgiveness
  • Compassion
  • God
  • Mercy
Bebe's interpretation
How does it feel to do good to someone you believe he does not deserve, probably because he is not on good terms with you? Is it possible to love someone who cannot reciprocate your good gestures? It is easy for us to love those who love us since it requires little or no effort. We are open to people who treat us specially and love us. As humans, we seem to have been wired to love those who reciprocate our love and hate those who do not show us love in return for our lovely gestures towards them.
Loving someone who is unlovable is a difficult thing to do. It is more difficult to give to them since we really don’t like them. However, as God’s children, we have to love even our enemies.
Once upon a time, we were a people deserving of God’s wrath and not His love. Yet because He loved us, He made provision for our salvation. Now that we have been saved by grace through faith, we have become first-hand recipients of God’s unconditional love. We should extend this love we have received to our enemies, expecting nothing in return.
If God loved us when we were unlovable, we can also love our enemies even when they don’t deserve it to the end that God be glorified.
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