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And this is Love, not that we loved God, but that he Loved us! And made himself a man to come and dwell among us, and then to die for us, even when our response to his love was to cricify him. He did this to show us what manner of Love he has toward us. If Love exists at all, then He is our example because God "Is" Love itself. So then, it's not that we, in our human capacity, are able by any power of our own to love our enemies, or those who hurt or persecute us, so that if any man condemn you for not knowing how or being able to fullfill the law that says, Love your eneimes, well, that same man has no power either in himself to love his enemies! So therefore we cannot judge people by such human standards. The very Love that Empowers us to love our enemies, also loves us when we cannot find the will or strength to do so. God did not come to condemn us but to give us life. He will not despise us if we find no strength to love our enemies, so we ought not despise each other. But, he will bless us immensely if/when we, by the power of his Love, find the will, by his tender Spirit, to surrender our pride and allow him to Love our enemies through us. Whenever we allow this to happen, not only will our enemies be tranformed by the coming to them of such an Unconditional Love whose Unconditional element can only be known when a person does not deserve something, but also we ourselves will experience an outpouring of this particular graceful Love in our own hearts, in return for surrending a hardened heart and allowing the Grace of God to flow through it into someone else's heart.
All to Jesus I Surrender,
All to him I freely give,
I will ever love and trust him
Ever in his presence Live
Surrender is perhaps the hardest thing...
But it's the very thing that Gives us Life.
And when we Experience this life,
Surrender isn't hard anymore. love kim
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