“But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven.” (Matthew 5:44-45a, NLT)
The biggest challenge facing you today is probably a person … Relationships are difficult on any level …
It’s easy to get caught up in the drama when someone pushes your buttons or you feel used, abandoned, mistreated, or hurt. Society is full of people looking for revenge and a way to make someone pay for wrongs done to them. As a child of God, you can choose another way – your heavenly Father’s way.
He desires to put His love, poured out lavishly upon you, to work in you and let it operate through you.
Prayer: Father, thank You for pouring Your love out on me. I desire to walk in unity with You, allowing Your love to flow through me and responding in peace to all.
(taken from Daily Wisdom for Women, 2018 Devotional Collection, 1/6/18)
Today I am joining … Open Sunday Thoughts and Spiritual Sundays and Scripture & a Snapshot .
The Christian life would be so much easier if we lived alone and didn’t love anyone! Thanks be to God that we are called into a life of feelings and tangled emotions, and God promises to walk with us through that challenge of messiness.
Thanks for these Sunday thoughts, Joanne.
Man oh man, relationships get prickly…especially the longer you know someone and the closer you live in proximity to their faults and yours. It takes SUCH humility to keep a good relationship going. Which is probably why God encourages them…to keep us humble and in community.
An area of surrender. I have found the best way for me to love my enemies is to pray for them whenever they come to mind in a rush of anger or hurt or resentment.
Ah yes, SOME people! My biggest challenge – emotionally & spiritually. Thank you for this reminder that my response should be prayer.