YOUR ENEMIES
Today's reading: Proverbs 25

"If your enemies are hungry, give them food to eat. If they are thirsty, give them water to drink. You will heap burning coals on their heads, and the Lord will reward you." Proverbs 25:21-22 NLT

Sadly, our Christian culture has tended to get the cart before the horse in regards to this verse.

We want to 'kill em with kindness', not serve them up love.

There is a tendency to want to end up on the top of the heap, to look like the better man, to show them how its done.

None of those attitudes match up with the attitude of Christ.

Christ served.

Christ gave.

Christ helped.

Christ moved to the back of the line.

How would things change in this world, in our country, in our neighborhoods, in our churches and in our homes if we just began to love people like Jesus loved people?

No agenda.

No ulterior motive.

No teaching them a lesson.

No heaping of burning coals on their heads.