tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6821288.post4883821925298677..comments2023-11-05T04:01:05.199-05:00Comments on Phil Wilson's Blog: "Love Your Enemies"Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11540149196113374329noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6821288.post-41170504383771656292009-06-22T16:06:58.066-04:002009-06-22T16:06:58.066-04:00"love you neighbor as yourself"... if yo..."love you neighbor as yourself"... if you do not love yourself, then you can't love your neighbor, and you cannot love yourself if you don't see your newness in Christ, your wholeness, your cleanness.<br /><br />If any man be in Christ, he is a new creation, old things have passed away, all things are become new. He did not say some things are new, he said all things are new.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6821288.post-29250354552572299562009-06-20T07:37:41.786-04:002009-06-20T07:37:41.786-04:00I recently heard Desmond Tutu speak to you point o...I recently heard Desmond Tutu speak to you point of loving your enemies. Simply put (and he does it much more eloquently then I), to not love your enemies is nothing short of blasphemy of God. Each person is God-created and has the breath of God in them. To do anything less than honor, love and respect that person reflects more on how we view God than it does on how we see that person. When Jesus said, “in as much as you do it to the least of these you do it to me” I sense that same incarnational paradigm that I am called to live and act on. If I truly see Jesus in the face of the people I meet, then how can I not serve and love?Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05493267451979498634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6821288.post-39564429228542947362009-06-19T11:19:25.695-04:002009-06-19T11:19:25.695-04:00I was reading last night about how your own self r...I was reading last night about how your own self respect influences the respect you have for others. The more I thought about it made me realize that Jesus was pretty confident with himself giving him the ability to love anyone, enemy or friend.<br /><br />I wonder if it is difficult to love and respect our enemies, because we fail to fully respect ourselves and the new life we have in Christ. <br /><br />This makes me think differently about the "plank and speck" Jesus talks about in terms of judging others. When we identify someone as an "enemy" we've already made a judgment. <br /><br />Perhaps we're a bigger enemy to ourselves than others are to us. It brings up the old question of "Can we love others beyond the extent of how much we feel loved by God?"Forrest Blogshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02818393648276891657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6821288.post-74917428423888223072009-06-19T10:19:55.594-04:002009-06-19T10:19:55.594-04:00Derek Webb
Politics and Love
can make you blind ...Derek Webb<br /><br />Politics and Love <br />can make you blind or make you see<br />make you a slave or make you free<br />but only one does it all<br /><br />its giving up your life<br />for the ones you hate the most<br />its giving them your gown<br />when they've taken your clothes<br /><br />its learning to admit<br />when you've had a hand in setting them up<br />and knocking them down<br /><br />cause love is not against the law<br />love is not against the law<br /><br />are we defending life<br />when we just pick and choose<br />lives acceptable to lose<br />and which ones to defend<br /><br /><b>because you cannot choose your friends<br />but you choose your enemies<br />what if they were one<br />one in the same </b><br /><br />could you find a way<br />to love them both the same<br />to give them your name<br /><br />love is not against the law<br />love is not against the lawmundiejchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17029540431840334762noreply@blogger.com