{"id":57365,"date":"2017-08-15T06:31:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T06:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xenodochial-archimedes.45-76-20-142.plesk.page\/2017x108x1loving-those-that-hate\/"},"modified":"2022-11-29T18:15:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T18:15:13","slug":"loving-those-that-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/2017\/08\/loving-those-that-hate.html","title":{"rendered":"Loving those that Hate, Those Who are Hard to Love- Mrs.Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<input class=\"jpibfi\" type=\"hidden\"\/><\/p>\n<p>There are terrible things happening in our world right now. Vile, awful displays of hatred. Not only are they happening in the world, right now\u00a0they\u2019re taking place right on our doorstep. So, today I\u2019m going to talk about those who are \u2018hard to love\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes as an \u2018influencer\u2019, I know others look to gauge our reactions. I try to stay out of world\u00a0affairs and politics- most of the time they don\u2019t tend to affect me in the\u00a0comfortable bubble I\u2019ve created for myself. But, this time it\u2019s too close to home for me to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve happened to turn on the news, or even glanced at social media, you will have seen what happened this weekend. Disgusting\u00a0acts: violence- fueled by hate, sparked by fear.<\/p>\n<p>As a person- it makes me sick to see another human being judging someone, not even by their character, but simply by the color of their skin. As a christian, it breaks my heart to see God\u2019s children treating each other this way.<\/p>\n<p>But, something that the pastor at church said yesterday really stuck with me. As a Christ follower, I am required to love equally. I am called to love everyone-<strong> that means the persecuted, as well as the persecutor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I struggle with this-<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>you mean I have to love those so filled with hate, it literally makes me sick?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes.<\/p>\n<p>God does- He loves them. He wants to see them come to repentance, just as much as he wants anyone to be saved. He sent his son to die so that we all have this opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>He calls me to \u2018love one another as He has loved me\u2019. That means forgiving the vile, awful things that these people have done- just as he forgives.<\/p>\n<p>And though I will condemn these actions with every ounce of my being, and I am sickened by their hatred- I will still pray for their souls. <strong>One of the hardest things I am called to do as a follower of Christ, is to love those that hate me.<\/strong> So I will pray. That they will see the error of their ways. That they will come to repentance.<\/p>\n<p>Because I was forgiven when I didn\u2019t deserve it.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are terrible things happening in our world right now. Vile, awful displays of hatred. Not only are they happening in the world, right now\u00a0they&#8217;re taking place right on our doorstep. Sometimes as an &#8216;influencer&#8217;, I know others look to gauge our reactions. Today I&#8217;m talking about those who are hard to love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thoughts","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}