Luke 6:27-36
We are called to act as children of the Most High. We are called to act the way God acts towards this world.
By entering our world through Jesus Christ, our Creator began reversing the flow of hostility. His love started catching on. Everywhere Jesus went, lives were transformed. People found dignity. Enemies turned into loving family.
Yes, hate is powerful. But love is irresistible.
Jesus is inviting us to trust that his love will overwhelm hatred, and by loving our enemies, we can upend the status quo and bring healing to our world.
GETTING PRACTICAL
Turning the other cheek is a response of humility to an act of violence. Offering your shirt when your coat is taken away is a response of generosity to an act of selfishness.
What if we were to respond in those situations of outrage with complements and positivity?
The next time you feel outraged by something a coworker or a family member at Thanksgiving or someone at the grocery store says, compliment them and see how far that little act of compassion really goes.
Someone has stood in the way of your wellbeing recently. What is a loving, undeserved act you could take towards that person right now?
When someone acts in hate, you can act in love.
Undoubtedly there is a group of people in our country right now that you consider to be standing in the way of your wellbeing. Enemies. It could be supporters of a specific political party, or a protest movement, or some ideology, or economic class…
Those are the people Jesus asks us to bless. To pray for. He is inviting us to ask for God’s favor to rest on them. Pray for them.
Compliment those who outrage you. Act in love towards those who hate you. And pray for your enemies. It is outrageous. But in this divided time, this is exactly the kind of posture we need to take to bring healing to our world.
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