I don't know about others but for me, this has got to be one of the most difficult things to do. After all, how do you love the people who have hurt you? Just yesterday, I was so frustrated with a colleague as he was just so insensitive and rude.
Perhaps it was timely then that the day before, on Sunday, my pastor was preaching on, as you might have guessed, loving our neighbours. He had shared this verse:
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbour as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.
Matthew 22: 37 - 40
And I recalled another verse related to this:
(Jesus said) But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
Luke 6: 27-29
One of my colleage also lent me a book called "The Root of Rejection" today. In it, the author had written on how Jesus was rejected and persecuted by the very people He had come to save. And yet He still loves them. He didn't have to face the rejection but He did it for us. If He could do it for us, why can't I do this for Him?
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