Who is the real enemy?

     Those people that we find hard to Love or who disagree with us, are not really our enemies. For I believe that the true enemy is satan. God created us all good and when this appears to be difficult to live out, we must remember who is behind it all. It is the evil one. He wants us to not love and to not live in peace with each other. When these difficulties occur, we must dig deep into the true meaning of love and who is the real enemy. 

     People will disagree with us and sometimes make it very hard to love them, but if we see past our pride and hurt we will find comfort in knowing that if we return love for hate, we will have succeeded in doing what has been told us by Jesus himself, to love, and pray for our enemies. 

     It hurts to be rejected and when people will not accept our love and therefore in our heart a hurt occurs. It is easy to judge and walk away. We do not know their lives, miseries and hardships and should not write them off so easily. Its these that we should love even more fiercely. As I write this, I remind myself even more. I am quick to act and get hurt and to run away. That is, I believe, exactly what the evil one wants me to do. Even though he is blinded me from this fact.  

     Why did Jesus say "love your enemies, pray for those that hurt you or despise you"?  No one wants to be rejected. No one wants to be left out. The hurt that entails scorn, is a heart that itself is hurting. Following God's statutes and laws is the only thing we need to remember. If He said it, then it is law and it is good. 

     Those that persecute us for our beliefs has become a target for Satan's evil arrows. Our choice to listen to him is destruction to our souls and should be avoided at all cost. Even if it means death to our bodies. If we return love, it is salvation to our souls. 

     Living in this world is tricky enough without putting the burden of dislike or hate upon Our hearts. We can hate the  "sin" but NOT  the "sinner". In God's eyes, we are all His children. I will not deny the fact that I need Him to forgive me everyday. For wrong, hasty decisions that I have made out of Hurt or Pride that puts me back five steps from the Kingdom of Heaven. I spoke about perseverance before, and that has become part of my own "Bible of Life". Every moment that God graces me with life and a beating heart, I must persevere. I must pick myself up and try again. 

     Love your enemies, pray for them, to be released from the evil clutches of satan. We may be the only ones in their lives that "do" love them.