Christianity and Forgiving and loving your enemies

So blog three, very exciting today. I thought i'd talk about love and when I say love I am mean mainly loving and forgiving your enemies. Fairly short one today though because this is a fairly powerful point to make that if i keep going on about it will only sound like me repeating myself.


Imagine the situation your at school or wherever, you could be getting mugged or something. What is your first reaction going to be, because that reaction can determine what happens next. I don't like the idea of retaliation usually makes things even worse then they can be, then if that gets worse people tell other people what's happening and they get involved and typically more and more get brought into an argument over something stupid. 


So back to the scenario, you have many options, these could be :


1/ Retaliate and fight back, (not something I advise doing).
2/ Calling all your friends over to witness some huge fight that's going to happen. 
or...
3/ You can forgive them. 


Jesus says in Matthew 6:14- 15 "For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive sins". 
Basically in forgiving other people for doing wrong to you, your heavenly father, that is God, will forgive you. It will be hard forgiving someone especially if they are your enemy but think about it, hating someone can lead you to get angry and frustrated and whatever is going on. But loving your neighbours and enemies you will feel happier.


Now so far I haven't really presented a case, so here I go. Your having an argument with someone, now what is the best thing to do. You could argue back but then it goes against the Bible, it get's messy, so best thing to do is to forgive. Christ died for us all and as i said in my previous post he died for everyone, even the enemies who put him on the cross and beat him, but he forgave them, Christ always forgave people for their sins because it is what God wants, God wants a world of complete love. The first two commandments " Love the Lord God" and "Love your neighbours as you would have them love you". 
If you want to be respected by someone you are angry with then the first step is to say sorry, then make it up to them in some way. Can you actually be proud that you hate someone?, and if so I ask how, we are all humans under God's rule and he sent his own son to die on the cross for our sins, he forgave each and every person of every sin they have committed, then you should do the same to others.

My message throughout this post will be repeated and repeated over and over, it is the second most important commandment, forgive and love your neighbours and enemies. If there is anyone you are unhappy with at the moment then say sorry to them. Colossians 3:13 says "Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you".

So remember this message and feel free to ask question and such, I will continue to pray for you all and don't give up faith in the Lord God, he is always there and he will always love you all. 

Until next time =)