“Love your enemies.  Do Good and Give expecting nothing in return. Your reward will be great and you will become Children of the Most High; for He is kind to both the ungrateful and the sinful. Be merciful, therefore, just as your Father is merciful.” ~ Jesus (Luke 6:35-36)

 

Here are two notes of importance related to this verse:

First, it is impossible to do true Good for anyone (either enemy or ally) if that “goodness” is done to gain any personal reward or benefit.  Love must be given selflessly in order to be truly Given at all – it must be done purely for the benefit of the other, with no hope or expectation of anything positive coming back to the giver as a consequence thereof …

Second, whether we engage such pure Giving or not, we are and ever will remain “Children of the Most High.”  The hyper-moral essence that many call “God” resides ever within us all – from the first moment of our sentient awareness (originating in all probability sometime during our 19th week in the womb) all the way to our final, dying breath.  Of course, this Truth means nothing unless we actualize it – unless we enliven the combination of humility & courage required to reach out and become agents of that same Divinity; with the best way of doing so being a self-sacrificial extension of Kindness to our “enemies” — to those who are doing us the most harm &/or those we most dislike or fear.

 

 

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