Today I got the opportunity to share a children’s sermon for the first time,at least by myself anyway. I will be taking about loving your enemies. This is a topic that is very hard for me to live out, but after really looking into it I know it’s something I need to work on more and more. Especially in a leadership position.
I don’t necessarily have “enemies.” But rather people who rub me the wrong way.
In the bible Jesus says, “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” -Matthew 5:43-44 ESV
Though I may not have people persecuting me, I have people who make me feel small and inadequate. I have to remember that my God is bigger than them. I am meant to treat them with love in his name.
When asked why we should be kind to our enemies, one of the young boys who attended the sermon replied, “So they can become better people!” When we are kind, we are better people too!