MARCH 21
Love your enemies,
bless them that curse you, do good to them
that hate
you, and pray for them that despitefully use you, and persecute
you—Matt. 5:44 |
Here is a way to examine
the real disposition of your own heart toward such. Would you
cheerfully do them kindness and help them to the extent of your
ability to see the error of their way and to overcome it? Can you
tenderly pray for them and patiently bear with their weakness, their
ignorance and lack of development, and try by a noble example to
show them a more excellent way? If such be the case, then it is the
sin that you despise, and not the sinner. The sin you should hate,
but the sinner, never. Not until God’s unerring judgment declares
that the sin and the sinner are inseparably linked together may love
let go its hold upon a brother
man. |
Parallel passages: Ex.23:4,5; Prov. 20:22; 24:29; 25:21; Luke 6:27,35; Rom. 12:14,
17,19,20; Matt. 5:10-12,45-47; Luke 23:34; Acts 7:60; 1.Cor.
4:12,14; 1.Pet. 2:23. |
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