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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