“You’re familiar with the old written law, ‘Love your friend,’ and its unwritten companion, ‘Hate your enemy.’ I’m challenging that. I’m telling you to love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst. When someone gives you a hard time, respond with the energies of prayer, for then you are working out of your true selves, your God-created selves. This is what God does. He gives his best—the sun to warm and the rain to nourish—to everyone, regardless: the good and bad, the nice and nasty.”
Love those who oppose you
March 24, 2016 | 6 comments
our socalled enemies could be our best friends. Because you are mor alert to the good in this “enemy” in order to forgive him, to love him. You have to pray, in order to get a right idea about him, the right idea how God created also him.
The daily lift from The Motherchurch in Boston says today about this theme, that the speaker was lead in here prayer to see all the good qualities of this person who supposed to be her enemy, and at the end she could love that dear person.
Thank God for Christian Science teaching us all this devine good that heals everything!
I like the phrase “let them bring out the best in you.” It is helpful to us to challenge our own thinking about what God had made. Otherwise, we just drift along with the world’s thought that God made both good and bad. Not true, all of God’s creation is perfect, complete, and harmonious. All mankind “lives, moves, and has our being ” in this blessed condition.
Why shouldn’t I love those that oppose me, for that opposition gives me the challenge to agree or disagree, to follow God’s law or not. It doesn’t not have to result in a debate for that just brings it down to a material desire to make one superior or not. God will inform us mentally if the other is right or not, not I.
Can’t be said often enough.
It does no one any good to hate anybody.love fills you with kindness and joy wheras hate fills you anger and despair! Choose to see in others what GOD sees. Be a blessing.
This ties in beautifully with today’s Daily Lift, “I refuse to hate” by Rosalie Dunbar. Mary Baker Eddy says in Science and Health on page 390: “Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou are in the way with him.” Although referring to disease, this can apply to anyone who might not be expressing brotherly love towards us. We should, and can, truly love our neighbor always!