When I find myself being angry at someone, hating someone, thinking someone is a demonic POS, then I need to start praying for that person. Stewing in the resentment is just Satan poisoning my heart and mind. I always find that when I am angry at someone, no matter how evil they are, praying for that person or group of persons, has always made me turn out better than stewing in the anger and resentment. You will be surprised at the good that praying for your enemies does for your soul.
Hate cripples. I can either let the person live rent-free in my head, or I can pray to God to cause them to repent, confess, and be saved and sanctified. I can’t make anything better through hate. I have had times where I was so angry at someone it made me physically sick. It may not seem to make sense, but when I prayed for the person, no matter how little they deserve it, God gave me peace. This was Jesus’ most radical teaching. He prayed for the very people who were crucifying Him. He loved us, and died for us, when it was our own sins that murdered Him. He suffered and died, for precisely the people who beat and killed Him. I can’t have peace by hating the people He died for. I can only have peace by obeying Him, and He COMMANDED us to love our enemy, to pray for those who persecute us, to do good to those who do us evil. Jesus is the only one Who makes any sense of all this.
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