Loving your enemies

The ACLU, police and parking nazis that issue ridiculous tickets, Barak Obama, abortion doctors, people that insult Jesus (like Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins), road ragers, Nancy Pelosi, passive aggressive people, most of Congress and the Supreme Court. These are my enemies. They do not agree with what I believe. Congress insists on going 4+ years without a budget, leading to the inevitable fiscal collapse that will one day happen when we have to start finally paying out our atrocious amounts of debt. A gov't that legalizes the killing of the unborn and many other atrocities. A President who epitomizes wolf in sheep's clothing - what a slick piece of work he is. So much of me hopes that every one of the aforementioned is severely punished for all the damage they've done. And yet, the Bible says to Love My Enemies and to pray for them. Has there ever been a harder thing to command? But then I'm reminded of the fact that my offenses against God are infinite in nature. Yes, that's right - compared to a perfect God, my imperfection is like trying to divide 1 by 0. Going from the perfect to the imperfect is a chasm of infinite width. God would be a righteous and just God to condemn me to an infinite and eternal punishment and consequence. And yet - Jesus Christ spanned that infinite chasm of sinfulness and paid the exceedingly expensive payment on my behalf. "How great is the Father's love for us, that we should be called children of God...and that is what we are!" It's so hard for me to love my enemies. I can't do it in myself. God, please help me.

Vindication

I recently went to Reddit.com (my 1st time on the news site actually). It was interesting to me that one of their top trending discussion topics is 'atheism'. As I read one of the threads, I initially felt angry at all the comments comparing Christianity to 'intellectual suicide' and the like. "It's like they think that Christianity is only a crutch for the the cosmically stupid" I said to myself. Part of me wanted Jesus to come back, even in that moment, to vindicate my belief system and worldview. I think Christ sort of whispered into my ear that this is the wrong way of looking at it. Because eternal vindication of my worldview is coming, but it's not going to be this moment of "aha! See I was right and you were wrong!" On the contrary, it's going to be with supreme sadness that all of these folks on the atheism forum confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. God will not always be mocked. But that moment of vindication will really be more full of sadness than joy. Oh Lord, that you would enable those that mock you to see the light and repent before that day of reckoning.