Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you - Mat 5:43-44

When anger is still stirring in me, it leads me to another level of emotion and hatre will start to grow in me.

The anger has came to a point that if I do not deal with it, it is going to bring me to disaster to my life. It will chain me to forgiveness and hurt. I do not realise that at all, part of me keep telling myself it is part of life. Just let it pass then it will be fine. But it just never pass. Trust me. It just never. In fact, it stirs me up more than just an issue when problem comes.

My dear Lord Jesus said to me today,

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 (Matthew 5:43-44).

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 - Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

It rings like an alarm into my head. Soft, gentle but 'annoying' enough that wakes me up.

Yes, the enemy has its way to persecute me. In so many ways that words cannot explain and tongue is hard to explain.

I was so much into my own anger, caught up by my own anger, that I almost forgot about what Jesus said and taught about love. I also forgot that Jesus walked with me even when that moment, He knows what happened to me, happened and my feeling hurt.

Look upon Jesus of His love when anger is stirring deeper inside. I am still learning to forgive and love. May God helps me to pray for my enemy and continue to love.