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loving enemies Someone told me today that someone who had done something hateful to them, would get their 'just desserts' and end up in hell for it. I thought - how sad. How can this Christian wish that for even someone that hurt them? Our Father is not willing that any should perish. I have experienced that feeling though, that I wanted someone to suffer for hurting me, so its not outside my realm of human understanding that someone would feel that way. I wanted to share what God showed me the last time I felt that way. People who are in pain, cause pain to others. If I was hurt by someone, then I wish or pray for pain for them, or suffering...in essence I am casting a vote for pain to beget more pain and for that pain to be vented against others, who like me, would be lashed out at. How could I want anyone else to have to suffer what I did not want to suffer? So now, so that no further harm be done to anyone else...when someone hurts me,I ask the Lord to help me not react or be affected by it, to gain control over any emotions that would take me in any direction not pleasing to Him. The best way He has shown me to help this along is by showing me I must next ask the Lord to heal them, to show them where and how they were hurtful to me, and ask Him to do so before they are able to hurt someone else in the same way. The next thing He has shown me to do is to not LET what they did hurt me, now or in the future if they repeat the behavior. I am to die to flesh. The enemy of us all counts on that NOT happening , to 'get' to us. He knows how hard it is to die to our flesh and uses that every chance he can, and those same things that he has studied in us that 'push our buttons' will keep being sent to us, if he has any say in it, and unfortunately in this world, he has some ability to influence some of that. The good news is its all a deception from him, that anyone really has the ability to hurt us. As Joyce Meyer has said, if you go out to the graveyard, and yell your fool head off at those people and insult them and say all sorts of hateful things...I guarantee those folks will not yell back or be hurt or offended! We need to be dead...to the darts of the enemy! For we wrestle not against flesh and blood... Those who hurt us are responsible for their actions, that is true. But the enemy counts on a combination of their shortcomings and ours (our lack of being dead to the flesh) to prosper in his path of pain and destruction. I for one, want to never again assist him, with the help of our Lord. Dear Lord, help us to die to our flesh, to not take offense easily, to understand the pain of others when it is inflicted on us by those that are afflicted. Heal their pain, Father, and gather them to your bosom, comfort us all in our pains, and help us to go forward and 'sin no more' . In Jesus' name we pray. Amen |
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7/31/2007 3:51 am |
Amen sister My pastor said to be no-one can hurt you, you make the decision to let them hurt you. I thought he was off his rocker but it makes sense. I am not an angry person either but I go beserk when I know someone is intentionly hurting another person, it's one thing I cannot stand to see happening cheers Psalm
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