Pray for our enemies

Hmmm... sometimes that's a hard one. Sometimes I feel like Jonah when God asked him to go and tell the Ninevites to repent. Jonah didn't want to - he wanted them to rot in hell. They were so wicked that they sacrificed children, among other things. So Jonah went the opposite way and was swallowed by a fish. (Good lesson to learn to not disobey God.)

But, in the same vein, we are told to pray for our enemies. Sometimes we have to do it out of duty because we're not feeling the love. I read that Corrie Ten Boom eventually forgave the Nazi's that killed her sister, tortured them in prison camps, and killed so many Jews. She finally found it in her heart to forgive them, because she asked God to help her. We can't do it on our own. God has to give us the love, His love. His desire is that ALL will be saved and go to heaven. Yes, the Bible does say that.

There are SO many rotten people in the U.S. - it seems like half the country now is just bad. Every election bares it out. And SO many in Washington D.C. that are rotten to the core. And we want justice and we want it now. But God says, 'Vengeance is mine,' and His revenge is much worse than ours. And we have to pray for God to give us the love for our enemies if we don't have it. We're also commanded to pray for our leaders, because God is the one that put them there. I heard someone say recently that we have the leaders that we deserve in this country.

May God have mercy on us all...