Me:  Prodigal, you look mad?

Prodigal:  If that guy come around me one more time I’ll hit him in the Adam’s apple so hard he’ll be spittin’ cider for a week.

Me:  Maybe we need to look at forgiveness, which is what Jesus is all about.

 

This is from the book Beyond Opinion Living the Faith We Defend by Ravi Zacharias

 

In Islam, the highest sacrifice is not that of self-denial for the good of others but of self-sacrifice for the sake of Allah in killing his enemies.  The benchmark of true believers is not their ability to love their enemies but how much they can hate them, even if they are their own parents, children, brothers, or kinsmen.  Allah has declared his enmity with them forever and ever if they resist him and Muhammad.

 

We know Jesus so we try to live like Jesus.  Love your enemies.  This means you will live by the spirit and not the flesh.

 

Ezekiel 14:23

And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD.

 

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org