Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. Luke 6:28
Lessons the Lord is teaching me.
I know the one about loving my enemies, that is forgiving them and letting Jesus love through me.
I still find myself cursing my enemies.
That is in between the times that I’m letting Jesus love them in my heart.
Not a very solid footing I should say.
The words do not go like this: ‘I curse this person.’
The words are less obvious.
I can’t stand this person. This person does this constantly to me. There this person goes again.
Maybe that is what Jesus meant when He said, Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained. John 20:23
My flesh likes to spread their failings all around to anyone that will hear when this person makes a mistake or is just being themselves.
Am I not the one who is cursed at that point?
If we look at Noah’s 3 sons, Ham was the one who wanted to expose Noah’s nakedness to his brothers.
While Noah was an upright person and this person I am speaking of is not, am I not just like Ham?
And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward,
and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward,
and they saw not their father’s nakedness.
And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. Genesis 9:20-25
Whether I’m cursed or not is not the point.
The problem is that this attitude is displeasing to the Lord and I need to repent.
I’m going to work on that today with the Lord Jesus Christ, my Redeemer.