Eye Opener
Love thy enemy
Is Valentine's Day an appropriate day for reconciliation for someone who has wounded your feeling? It's rather impossible but if God dwells in one's life, it is possible for God is love. To born again Christians, though their feeling has been wounded by friends and associates, they can easily forgive and forget for loving people and loved ones is the first commandment. Mark 12:30, “And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind and with all thy strength, this is the first commandment.”
Charismatic Christians usually avoid conflict and stay away from heated arguments and shady business transaction. They usually turn down worldly pleasure and consecrate instead to the work of God where they find peace and true love in life.
There are three kinds of love many born again Christians learn from the sermon of their pastor: Eros, Thileo and Agape love. Eros love is lustful; Thileo love is friendly and Agape love, Christian or divine love. Charismatic and born again Christians prefer Agape love. “Let brotherly love continue. Not forgetful to entertain strangers for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels.” Hebrew 13:1-2.
To lovebirds in various levels of learning, Valentine's Day is the time that they share their true love with one another. Not long ago, two college sweethearts ended their life when their parents did not consent to their being together. It was like the Romeo and Juliet love affair, but the college students thought that by ending their life, they can both go to life thereafter. Suicide is not an answer to ending one's precious life. Both lovers thought that they will go to heaven!
There is still God and life has still blessed hope once the Lord's children call on Him. 1 John 4:12: “No man hath seen God at anytime. If we love one another, God dwelt in us and His love is perfected in us.”
If one is a child of God, he can easily forgive his enemy. Love your enemy as if he were to become your friend, and your friend as if he were to become your enemy, as the famous adage goes.
Let's make Valentine's Day a day of peace within our neighbor, our heart and our friend. After all, when you meet your enemy up yonder, God will say, “Good and faithful servant, come and inherit the kingdom” provided of course that when you were on earth, you have smoked the pipe of peace and God reigns in your life. But if you have not forgiven your brother or sister here on earth, how can you be in peace with God. “Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren see that you love one another with a pure heart fervently.” 1 Peter 1:22.
Let us all love one another and bring our animosity to God and He will bless us abundantly. God's love be with you all!