Here's a revelation I caught recently. God will sometimes assign people to our lives who are difficult to love as a part of our process of sanctification. We are called to love our neighbors as ourselves, we are called to pray for our enemies, we are called to embody the characteristics of Christ and forgive.
It is difficult. Nobody ever said it would be easy to choose God and kill your flesh. But it is worth it for what you gain in return. By being fully submitted to God and under His authority we are protected from things that we would otherwise be vulnerable to. By honoring God through our choices and actions it strengthens our relationship with Him and allows us to better hear His voice, be led by Him and receive all that He has for us.
John Bevere's book "The Bait of Satan" and his teachings are helping to show me that one of the things we should all be praying for is to become unoffendable. It's something that I am actively working on, when we allow others to get under our skin to the point that it causes us to act out of character we are giving the enemy the power.
Here are the scriptures I talked through:
Matthew chapter 5: 43-48
Luke 6: 27-36
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