I really have nothing to add here and no creative perspective to share. This passage is so clear, so simple and yet…so hard to do. I just encourage you to read this and take time to pray about it.

Mathew 5:44-48 (NASB)

43) “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44) But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45) so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and theunrighteous. 46) For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47) If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?48) Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

In Christ,

Rodney McClure