Should we love the terrorist? The ones who harm innocent people, the ones who burn down buildings just to make a statement, the ones who bomb buildings and fly planes into trade centers?
The answer? yes.
Everywhere we look we hear of some act of terrorism going on around the world. Maybe we hear about it more in this day because of the increase in social media and Internet resources. Terrorism has been going on since the beginning of time. We mostly hear of these terrorists being Muslim. Terrorist can however be from anywhere; they can be in our government, or even our neighbors.
** Did you know that there are around 1.6 billon Muslims in this world according to The Week. Most of which do not show acts of violence.
However, there are some who do, such as the well known terrorist group called ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria).
It breaks my heart to get on Facebook or the news and see all of the crimes they are committing and all of the innocent lives that have been killed because of them. What breaks my heart even more is to see the reaction of hatred of fellow Christians towards these terrorists. Yes, what they are doing is wrong, and yes our government is not the best, but that is no excuse to hate these people.
Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Try to do what is honorable in everyone's eyes. If possible, on your part, live at peace with everyone. Friends, do not avenge yourselves; instead, leave room for His wrath. For it is written: "Vengeance belongs to Me; I will repay," says the Lord. But if your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him something to drink. For in so doing you will be heaping fiery coals on his head. Do not be conquered by evil, but conquer evil with good. Romans 12: 17-21
The Lord says to leave room for His wrath and to conquer evil with good. If we love Jesus then we must obey His word! These terrorist LOVE the attention and hatred they get from us, its just the icing on cake. It bring them pleasure to know what they are doing gets to us. Whether they be overseas or here in America.
Our greatest command is to love!
Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. God's love was revealed among us in this way: God sent His One and Only Son into the world so that we might live through Him. Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another. No one has ever seen God. If we love on another, God remains in us and His love is perfected in us. 1 John 4:7-12
It is hard for us to love these people who tear down and disrespect something so precious to us but this life is not about us! God put us hear to share his love. The way that these people will see God is through us, and the love we share towards others. This love can't be through what we say, we have to mean it and show it through our actions. Little children, we must not love with word or speech, but with action. 1 John 3:18
If you are anything like me you might be thinking well God, you want me to go and find these terrorist and love them??? I don't believe it has to be that way UNLESS you have been called to do so. We can pray for them and instead of reacting in hatred react in love. We may never come in contact with one but we may come in contact with a victim of terrorism and its our job to reach out to them and love them, show them God is stronger than the hatred.
Not to brag on my husband but I was asking him last night if he had heard of the martial law stuff and he simply answered "No, I turned our country over to God." This just blew me away because if anyone knows him knows how he loves our country and how much he hates it being done wrong. I used to hear many conversations of it. If we could all turn this country over to God and let Him have His way our world would be much better! We are the body of Christ, and the only way we will see a change is if we start acting like Christ who prayed for His enemies even as He was dying. "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do." Luke 23:34
Why must we love them? Because God is love and if we are Gods children we must love also!
We can change the world, but it first starts with prayer; prayer for forgiveness and to love others as we love ourselves. Let the world see love and kind acts of God in response to terrorism.
you are loved, you are forgiven, you are blessed.
His daughter,
Starla Conroy
Mount Rushmore: with my dad former member of the USMC
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