Simon says....but CHRIST says LOVE & BLESS THEM

Luke 6:27-28 AMP : "But I say to you who are listening now to Me: [[a]in order to heed, make it a practice to] love your enemies, treat well (do good to, act nobly toward) those who detest you and pursue you with hatred,
28Invoke blessings upon and pray for the happiness of those who curse you, implore God's blessing (favor) upon those who abuse you [who revile, reproach, disparage, and high-handedly misuse you]."

If you look close enough you will see a dirt road in the rt corner of the picture that I have termed in this particular photo the "hard walk." This was a road into the Tsilitza Village in Lilongwe. I called it hard because the road was unpaved, it was terrible terrain and even after 2miles you then came upon the actual community where you saw people living in extreme poverty and kids playing on broken dirt soccer fields but radiating from what appeared to be a depressing scene was JOY. The kids were laughing, playing and when they saw us they ran towards us embracing us with hugs an clothing us with a contagious laughter. Physically this was a hard walk much like this scriptural challenge Christ present to those who are called His disciples. Physically it is hard to LOVE people whose hearts are set against you. You can see their plans are to bring you down & humiliate you but Christ instructs us to love them & then bless them. WHY? Well first of all He created you & them, and like children you hate to see your kids fight. Second, you know we have an adversary, who wants nothing more than to see us kill each other, so if you can first see that Satan & selfishness is at the root of the disagreement you should be able to then move towards step 3. BLESS THEM; construct prayers that are loving that you see their needs and desire God fulfills them. DO something.....buy them lunch, grab their reports off the copier, ask them how___________ is doing, figure out ways to be a cold blooded assassin of hatred/malice. Like our walk if you take it in stride, knowing that JOY awaits you, it will be well worth it, for in the end GOD WILL BE GLORIFIED and you will be rewarded for your efforts!

Review: 1. Identify your sibling. 2. Recognize who has come between you and your sibling. 3. Do something (PRAY, BLESS, and kick SATAN's but by LOVING him away!)

It's all about LGLP!