Catch Away - We are going home !

The Lord has directed me to keep my prayer time with Him private...especially lately.  But I was reminded of something this morning during that time that I was told to pass along.

I always try to be honest before the Lord...which should be a no-brainer considering the fact that He knows our hearts even more than we do...but I really do catch myself sometimes witholding true feelings and even doubts sometimes.  Boy, do I hate my human nature 

Anyway...this morning, I began talking to the Lord about the fact that if I'm being honest with myself, I'll admit that many of the people on my prayer list are enemies.  Truly...enemies in my life that have harmed me and my family.  And, I was more or less expressing to the Lord the fact that I don't know if I can truly say I love them.  It was then that I was reminded of the following:

Romans 5:8: 

But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.

God loved us when we were still His enemies.  I don't know about you but this is a fact that I conveniently forget.  I was an enemy of God when He called me into His kingdom.  There wasn't one little thing that was appealing or "worthy" about me that would make Him desire me to be a part of His heavenly family....yet when I was doing things that hurt Him, He saved me from myself.

This put my enemies into a new perspective.  I still don't feel like I love them as I should...but the Lord has at least helped me see them through His eyes.

Hey Jeff.   I love your post.   I too am brutally honest with our Lord.   Like ya said,  its a no brainer.  He already knows.  Thats part of the beauty of it.   We might as well be perfectly honest,  and at the same time,  being perfectly honest is a very liberating place.     One of the other beauties of the situation, is that since He really knows our deepest truth, we dont have to convince Him what were really about on the inside.    Sometimes I find myself repenting and trying to explain to Him that Im really not that person.   Thankfully He does know the real us!  For if we were judged purely on appearances... well... So nice to know, that He really does know how much we love, adore, and cherish Him!   I love that I am known by Him in truth!  Makes our relationship the best ever!  Great thread!  Thanks for the post,  Love Dust:D

This is a wonderful reminder, Jeff....we are to love our enemies, through Him, through His eyes.  Not always easy, but so blessed to be able to admit our inability to love to Him and know that He will change our hearts.

Beth Moore once shared about a person who wasn't very loveable, but she said God told her that "even a porcupine needs a hug."  Perhaps that is all God is asking of us.....give you enemies a prayer-filled hug, not because we want to do so, but because our enemies need them.