TOTD, February 08-09

Love Your Enemies and Pray for Them

For each of us who has been struggling with this problem: how to love our enemy, here’s a reminder from the bible. Some wonderful verses as follows:

"You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
--- Matthew 5:43-48

God wants us not only to love our enemies, but also pray for them. He has shown what is fair in His eyes: give the sun rise to all good and bad people, send the rain equally to the righteous and the unrighteous. We need to try once more to forgive those who have hurt us. This is not an easy task, but it’s mission possible with God. (-fon-)

The Work of God

This is an interesting conversation that can be found in John 9.

As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
"Neither this man nor his parents sinned," said Jesus, "but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.
--- John 9:1-3

If something goes wrong, people surely will try to find out, whose fault is this? In the verses above, the disciples asked Jesus whose fault was that? The blind man’s or the parent’s?
We need to learn to answer like Jesus that it’s nobody’s fault. It’s just the magical hands of God is at work. So that the work of God might be displayed in this life.
So, if anything goes wrong right now, we got to believe that God is at work. And we’ll wait for the beauty of the work of God to show its face once again in this life. (-fon-)