Renowned Bible teacher and #1 New York Times bestselling author
Joyce Meyer teaches readers to love the people in their life who are
hard to love.
We're never going to be able to prevent people from saying or doing
things that hurt our feelings. We will always have opportunities to get
offended. But if we do things God's way, we can choose to save ourselves
a lot of misery and hardship. This doesn't mean we allow people to abuse
us. No, there is a time for confronting people and dealing with
situations. However, the Bible commands us to love our enemies and
forgive those who have wronged us, even when it feels impossible.
Everything the Lord asks us to do in the Bible is ultimately for our
good. In fact, when we choose to love our enemies and forgive those who
have hurt us, we are actually helping ourselves more than anyone else.
Because whatever the Lord commands us to do, He is going to give us the
power of the Holy Spirit to accomplish it--and that includes loving and
being good to difficult people! God's love flowing through us is strong
enough to melt even the hardest hearts, so use kindness as a weapon to
overcome the meanness in people.
