Great Helps to us in these Days of Peril
"But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you." —Matthew 5:44 [KJV] Love is the very badge and characteristic of a disciple of Jesus. Love is of God. All tempers and passions which are contrary to love, "are earthly, sensual, and devilish." Let no disciple say, This is a hard saying, who can obey it? Nay, but it is the command of thy loving Saviour; He practised it; He has left thee an example. To this end art thou born from above of the Spirit of love; and art possessed with "faith, which worketh by love." Therefore though hard and impossible it may seem to carnal reason, and to flesh and blood; yet we are under the indispensable obligation to follow the steps, and obey the commands of that Jesus, who loved us and died for us, though His enemies. He hath blessed us, and prays for us, and does good unto us, though we have rebel...