When Love Makes Enemies

We tend to expect that showing love to others will automatically make them love, or at least appreciate us in return.

But just like the nation of Israel returned God’s loving care with rebellion and spite, we may find from time to time that our love –even when expressed in a Christlike manner– has made an enemy where we expected to find a friend.

The apostle Paul experienced this. In his second letter to the church in Corinth, he wrote,

“And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you, though t...