When Jesus told us to love our enemies, He knew that His love operating in us could melt the hardened heart and make the enemy our friend. “This applies supremely,” H. A. Williams writes, “to the enemy within. For our own worst enemy is always ourselves. And if with patience and compassion I can love that murderous man, that cruel, callous man, that possessive, envious, jealous man, that malicious man who hates his fellows, that man who is me, then I am on the way to converting him into everything that is dynamically good and lovely and generous and kind and, above all, superabundantly alive
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