Hating The Haters Makes You Like Them....A Hater!

“You have heard the law that says, ‘Love your neighbor’ and hate your enemy. But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike. If you love only those who love you, what reward is there for that? Even corrupt tax collectors do that much."

~Matthew 5:43-46

 

There has been quite the uproar of late about how one group hates another group and fights ensue leaving chaos and injury in their wake.  And then, we have people like the black officer helping an member of the KKK with a heat related condition into the shade.  Let's be completely honest here, that officer did not HAVE to help this man, but he did.  He did not HAVE to bring him to shade, but he did.  He could have called a white officer over to take care of this, but he chose to do it himself.  He could have told this member of the KKK, "You hate me because of my skin.  You believe you are better than me.  So good luck to you."  But he didn't.

 

THIS is how God expects us to act.  THIS is how Jesus instructed us to act.  We, as believers, are SUPPOSED to be weird; we are SUPPOSED to be different, even if it shocks the rest of the world.  

 

When we hate the haters...we are just like them!  Yet Christ called us to love those who hate us.  

 

Let me state the obvious here: 

Skin Color Is Just The Gift Wrap, The Gift Or The Curse Is What Is In The Heart! 

 

Look at the gift, not the wrapping.  BE the gift worth receiving!