INTERESTING PERSPECTIVE!! (PROVERBS 25:21,22) If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink For SO you will heap coals of fire on his head And the LORD will reward you The phrase heap coals of fire on his head refers to an ancient Egyptian custom where a person publicly demonstrated sorrow for wrongdoing by carrying on his head a pan of burning coals to represent the burning pain of his guilt. The point is that when we love our enemy, we become the burning pan of coals on his head. Our love and good works toward our enemy is a painful reminder to him of his evil deeds and hopefully shames him into wanting to correct his ways. Gods plan is for you to replace your enemys evil with good; to replace his hatred with love; to replace his unkindness with kindness. In accounting terms, the only way we can cancel out the evil done to us is to pay it back with good, thereby keeping the books balanced. To add evil to evil just puts us further and further into a deficit of good in the world.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 11:42:18 +0000