I cannot love my enemy

[LayHong_Loves_Christ]

Luke 6:27-28:But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.

I admit that I could not love my enemy.
If my enemy like Hamas, came and killed my family members, how can I love them from my heart?
Loving my enemy will not change my enemy to become my friend, right?
My enemy may think that I am weak and bully me more.

 

[LayHong_Loves_Christ]

Matthew 5: 38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’[h] 39 But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. 40 And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well. 41 If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles. 42 Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.

 

[LayHong_Loves_Christ]

Why should I be kind to my enemy? It sounds silly.
The enemy will not treasure my kindness but to trample on me more.

 

[honey badger]

I admit that I could not love my enemy.
If my enemy like Hamas, came and killed my family members, how can I love them from my heart?
Loving my enemy will not change my enemy to become my friend, right?
My enemy may think that I am weak and bully me more.

if you don't love your enemy what have you done, and in the same breath, if God does not love his enemies what has he done.

 

[Petros2015]

Loving my enemy will not change my enemy to become my friend, right?

It may or may not.
But loving your enemy will change you to become more like Christ
And hating your enemy will change you to become less (and more like your enemy)
This is the point.

 

[Maria Billingsley]

I admit that I could not love my enemy.
If my enemy like Hamas, came and killed my family members, how can I love them from my heart?
Loving my enemy will not change my enemy to become my friend, right?
My enemy may think that I am weak and bully me more.

They became and remained enemies because there was never any love. Love can be shown in many ways. Even the most minimal gesture can amount to the greatest love shown between two individuals. Think about it.
Blessings.

 

[honey badger]

So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.

the perception our flesh/five husbands/five brothers afords us is a serpent/enemy we all choose ...

 

[Unqualified]

Just pray for them, good things and to receive Christ and change. That is all that is required.

 

[trophy33]

If you cannot love your enemy, there is another way - do not have any enemies.

 

[YorkieGal]

This resonates with me. I cannot love my enemies, either. So, pray for yourself that you may understand how to. I'm sure many would struggle with this and I believe God will help us through something we can't understand if we ask.

 

[Petros2015]

If you cannot love your enemy, there is another way - do not have any enemies.

Or perhaps, love the children of your enemies.

 

[Lukaris]

I think if we try not to hate our enemy, we will probably never like them but will have endured all things that St. Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 13:1-13.

Believe me, I hope I will end up doing what I just posted about.

 

[Clare73]

I admit that I could not love my enemy.
If my enemy like Hamas, came and killed my family members, how can I love them from my heart?
Loving my enemy will not change my enemy to become my friend, right?
My enemy may think that I am weak and bully me more.

Love is not based in affection and feeling.
It is based in a commitment to the well-being of another, doing for them the necessary things they cannot do for themselves.

By the grace of God, we can do that for our enemies.

 

[LayHong_Loves_Christ]

If Hamas killed my family I am going to kill them ten-fold back.
I cannot love my enemy.

 

[trophy33]

If Hamas killed my family I am going to kill them ten-fold back.
I cannot love my enemy.

Do not have any enemies then. Move from problematic areas, live in peace somewhere else. No need to fight and hate for a piece of land.

Do not have a family, if you are so fixated on them and worried about them that it would make you a murderer.

Simply, arrange your life in a way that you can live it in a Christian way. You do not need to have all possible worldly complications, worries and obstacles in your life and then struggling to win over them. "Do not lead us into temptation" is a biblical principle.

 

[Bobber]

This resonates with me. I cannot love my enemies, either. So, pray for yourself that you may understand how to. I'm sure many would struggle with this and I believe God will help us through something we can't understand if we ask.

I think there are tips in the Bible that does help us to be able to forgive others. I can think of various things but here's one.....when we understand mankind is under the influence of Satan......rulers of the darkness of this world......and that they're very much like puppets.....that has helped me to be more forgiving and almost feel sorry for those who have done me wrong.

 

[Bobber]

If Hamas killed my family I am going to kill them ten-fold back.
I cannot love my enemy.

Every thing in our natural mind would say we can't do this....but God did say we can.....doesn't mean we have great feelings about them.....but we carry out God's instruction on what we're to do realizing they're slaves of the devil. That might help us to keep things in perspective.

 

[Clare73]

If Hamas killed my family I am going to kill them ten-fold back.
I cannot love my enemy.

Not in the midst of the enemy's life-threatening conflict, for one must first preserve one's own life.

One can love his enemy; i.e., minister to his need, only if the enemy can be accessed apart from conflict with him.

 

[dwb001]

If Hamas killed my family I am going to kill them ten-fold back.
I cannot love my enemy.

How very Christ-like.

 

[Hazelelponi]

If Hamas killed my family I am going to kill them ten-fold back.
I cannot love my enemy.

That's vengeance, and God said vengeance is His - not ours.

That said, the responsibility of nations/national governments is different to our own as in Scripture governments have a responsibility to bring evildoers to justice.

However, If your family was truly harmed and you were truly saved though it might take you a while you would eventually come to forgiveness for the perpetrators.

After all they are blinded, much like you before you came to Christ. They are well and truly lost, but some among them might be people Christ died for who have yet to come to Christ.

We never know and we don't want what is in our own hearts making an obstacle to their salvation.