My Bumper Sticker

Today's sermon hit hard...in the heart. It is something that my whole family has been struggling with, especially, for this last month and a half.

"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 6:27-28

I have been praying that God would help me be able to forgive and love the enemy. It is so difficult for me to understand anyone that is so consumed with hate and self loathing that their greatest desire is to make everyone else around them as miserable as possible. They seek to destroy those that did nothing disparaging to them.

This is a very difficult lesson. I KNOW that I should feel sorry for them becuz they really don't know any better...their heart is too dark and hardened. I pray for them as well as myself...that I can deal with them in the way that Christ wants me to.

My daughter discussed this with me also...how the one girl in the youth group is not someone that she would want to hang out with becuz of things she does, BUT she knows she should be friendlier to her. Sometimes, they just need to know that someone is not looking down on them as less.

I know in the long run only God can change their hearts and save them...but He uses us as his 'salesmen'. We are to show how good God is...how He can make them a better person...how salvation really is a plus, not a minus.

I should wear one of those bumper stickers on my 'bumper'...Please Be Patient...God isn't Done With Me Yet."