As Jesus continues to confound the wisdom of man with the mercy of God, he offers one of the most difficult commands to those who would follow him. "Love your enemies" isn't simply a slogan meant to be tossed aside, but rather a transformation of thinking that tells us to see the Lost the way God sees them; as wayward children who need to come home. When we begin to act in love, God can work on our hearts and minds to transform them. The first step is realizing that God did the same thing for you that he is asking of us, "while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." God isn't asking you to do something that he hasn't already done, and he isn't asking you to do it without the grace that he will give you. In the end, we must imitate Christ and love those who show no prospect of loving us back; when we do, we'll sow the seed of the Gospel in fertile soil. If we don't, we've failed to live up to the grace which God has given to us.
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