"You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven."
Let us pray for them and that God in His great compassion might have mercy on them as He has had on us...and that we would be instruments of witnessing to them the love of Christ through the Gospel...and let us remember that we didn't deserve it either.
We aren't warring against flesh and
blood here...but against the armies of the darkness. Why do we want to destroy a people who are so deceived by false gods that their death entails an eternity of Hell?
We're so quick to call out and defend our anger with the just-war doctrine. Aside from that anger being evil and putting us in the way of judgement, if we really care about just-war doctrine...let's remember why we care about it....because God demands justice, and so we're following that pattern in order to honor Him. In order to honor Him, we must take what He's told us to do to heart and obey.
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