[Manna - March 21]
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you. Matthew 5:44
HERE is a way to examine the real disposition of
your own heart toward such.
Would you cheerfully
do them kindness and help them to the extent of
your ability to see the error of their way and to
overcome it?
Can you tenderly pray for them and
patiently bear with their weakness, their ignorance
and lack of development, and try by a noble example
to show them a more excellent way?
If such be the
case, then it is the sin that you despise, and not the
sinner.
The sin you should hate, but the sinner, never.
Not until God's unerring judgment declares that
the sin and the sinner are inseparably linked together
may love let go its hold upon a brother man. Z.'91-141 R1330:6