Forgiving Your Worse Enemy
By Reverend Lonnie C. Crowe
Who is my worst enemy?
Charles Spurgeon said, “Beware of no man more than of
yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.”
More simply put, we are our own worst enemy. Praise God! We often preach and practice the
forgiveness of God in our lives and the necessity of forgiving those who have
wounded and betrayed us. So seldom do we
forgive the enemy within.
Many times, even when we have accepted that God has forgiven
us, we continue to torture ourselves for our past failures. We must learn to
forgive ourselves and to love ourselves in the Lord. The greatest commandments: Mark 12:30-31: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your
strength." This is the first commandment. And the second is like
this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment
greater than these.”
Notice,
we must forgive ourselves and love ourselves in the Lord before we can forgive
and love others.
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By Phil
Johnson and Bob Benson, Sr. |
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Give
them all, give them all, give them all to Jesus |
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