Loving Our Enemies – More Than a Nice Idea

Love your enemies. That’s a very tall order. In fact it can be such a tall order that we feel it to be out of our reach altogether. Not only is it a tall order, at times it seems irrational, excessively pacifistic, and a decision made by weak people too sheepish to stand up when they should stand up. Loving our enemies is tough indeed.

Yet, forgiveness is recognizing that holding something against someone else is in reality our choice to hold onto the anger in ourselves. It is a decision to let the other person wallow in all the sordid repercussions of their choices while we move on embracing a freedom that they will know nothing of until they themselves are repentant. And so, maybe forgiveness is far more than simply a nice idea.