Do you know how to love someone?

“Oh that’s easy” you might say if that someone gives you a reason to, but what if he /she does not? Would you still love him/her?

That’s not so easy. Imagine that a person says you are a liar, you are good for nothing, calls you the worst epithet, falsely accuses you, laughs at you, attacks you, does anything to show he hates you being in his sane mind, would you love him/her at all?  It is possible if your love for that person is real.

That is the real love that many people feel for their spouses even though they mistreat them or hit them. That is the love the Word of God talks about in First Corinthian 13, which: “bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.”

 (Verse 7). That is the kind of love Jesus showed in the cross when He pleaded God for the ones who tortured Him: “Father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing” (Luke 23.34).

Jesus said in the Sermon of the Mount something that He demonstrated then: LOVE your enemies and PRAY for those who persecute you. (Mathew 5.44).  It is easy to love a spouse, a son or daughter, a friend . . . but, my enemy  . . . the one that’s “killing me”? . . .  The one, who thinks, behaves, believes and is completely different than I am and is against me to the point of even destroying me?  That is difficult, very difficult to do. But if Jesus asked us to do it is because we can. And if it is possible to do it I guess I can try and ask God to give me the strength and wisdom to know how and when to do it.

I am not perfect but since I accepted Jesus as my Christ and Savior, I know I can do all things through Him who strengthen me. (Philippians 4.13) He would not have asked us to do something that is impossible for us as humans to do because that is why He came to our world to experience what we as humans could do, to be as holy (chosen) as He wants us to be. And that does not mean to be slow or foolish or to give ourselves up to the enemy, because Paul, the apostle also said “But if your enemy is hungry, feed him, and if he’s thirsty, give him a drink, for in so doing you will heap burning coals on his head” (Romans 12.20) So, does that mean that by doing him good I am really damaging him? No. I am making my enemy think things over because if I am capable to love him, I already won him.

  All the advices the Bible gives are perfect. We are the ones who are not because of the Sin but we could change that by accepting Jesus, and really doing what Jesus said God commanded us:

“‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind,’ this is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets” (Mathew 22. 37-40)