Let’s get our pride in check and recognize where our gifts are from before Satan has a heyday with it. Pride is his favorite and we know how his story ends.
A filthy mouth always hinders our relationship with the Lord. Jesus says that it’s not what goes into our mouth’s that defiles it but what comes out. He also taught that out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
God commanded, under the law to love our neighbor as ourselves. All neighbors…smart ones, dumb ones, tall ones, short ones, the beautiful and the not so beautiful, the rich and the poor, the saved and the lost. We are to love them all. Love is THAT important.
If we want more from God we must be willing to give more. We must be willing to lay aside all filthiness and all overflow of wickedness. Salvation is the first step, and Jesus did all of the hard work for us. All we have to do is admit we have sinned, accept the forgiveness that Christ sacrificed his life for and yield ourselves to Him.
Sometimes when we look around at our circumstances and feel the weight of the pressures of this world, it’s hard to believe that we are loved. How can God allow the hard trials of life if He is good? How can He allow good people to suffer if He loves us?
So what does it mean to love our enemies? Consider Jesus. Jesus faced enemies everywhere he went and continues to face them to this day. He often showed love to his enemies by feeding them, teaching them, and treating them with compassion