“If your enemy is hungry, feed him;
if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.”
The use of the word enemy is SO extreme here it almost hurts to read, right?!
Now, what’s weird is that no one would give you a hard time if you didn’t give up your food for someone who hates you. No one would look at you and say, “you scum! that person who tried to beat you up a second ago is thirsty! I can’t believe you would let them be thirsty like that!” No, instead we would all probably look at them and say, “well, they got what they deserve! They should have picked their friends better and not made so many people hate them so they could have people around to help when they needed it.”
Right?! We think, even though we’re Christians, that “what goes around, comes around.” We kind of believe in Karma, right?!
Now hold on…Doesn’t it say in the Bible some where that “you reap what you sow?” Well, yes it does. And if you wanted to use the Bible as a whip or bat or (insert weapon of choice right here) you could. But the problem with that is at the point you see your enemy down you’d just be rubbing it in or pouring salt in the wound. You’d be trying to do the job of the Holy Spirit , trying to bring conviction into their lives, well maybe not conviction but certainly judgement. And then you get in that cycle of you reaping what you’ve sown. So if you sow judgement, guess what you’re going to get! That’s right, boys and girls, more judgement!
So, in order to start a new harvest of love and joy and hope and peace and hospitality, pull up the thorns and weeds of bitterness and anger and revenge in your life and feed your dad gum enemy when he’s hungry! (drop mic and walk off stage)
