Your Enemy is in Your Mind
3/4/09 Insights from Prayer Enemies you can effectively eliminate by refusing to think of them as anything other than God’s children. Once this is fixed in your mind they are no longer enemies because you do not allow them to be enemies, and you can begin to deal with them as God wants you to. It will not be the same for everyone, but what you do will be based on the same consideration toward all — that if God loves this person that should be your default position as well.
This sounds Utopian, and people would scoff at your naivete – the point is not for you to destroy an enemy but to reject his hatred in your own mind. This is something the weakest among us can do; from there you’re able to leave justice to God where it belongs. Your enemy may still want to destroy you, but that has always fit into God’s plan. What’s different is that you are putting yourself into the relationship with God and not with your enemy. In this, the relationship that’s the one of real importance, you are already justified by God – the race is run and you have won. You do not have to hate your enemy just because he is nurturing a hatred for you. Instead you can do the right thing and so put God in your corner, where you will recognize His guidance as to what you must do to deal with your enemy from this point on.
