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"To you who are willing to listen, I say, love your enemies! Do good to those who hate you. Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who hurt you. If someone slaps you on one cheek, offer the other cheek also. If someone demands your coat, offer your shirt also. Give to anyone who asks; and when things are taken away from you, don't try to get them back. Do to others as you would like them to do to you.

If you love only those who love you, why should you get credit for that? Even sinners love those who love them! And if you do good only to those who do good to you, why should you get credit? Even sinners do that much! And if you lend money only to those who can repay you, why should you get credit? Even sinners will lend to other sinners for a full return.

Love your enemies! Do good to them. Lend to them without expecting to be repaid. Then your reward from heaven will be very great, and you will truly be acting as children of the Most High, for he is kind to those who are unthankful and wicked." - Luke 6:27-35 (NLT)

Psalm 1

I love how this reads in the Message:

Psa. 1.1  How well God must like you— you don’t hang out at Sin Saloon, you don’t slink along Dead-End Road, you don’t go to Smart-Mouth College. 2  Instead you thrill to GOD’S Word, you chew on Scripture day and night. 3 You’re a tree replanted in Eden, bearing fresh fruit every month, Never dropping a leaf, always in blossom. 4  You’re not at all like the wicked, who are mere windblown dust— Without defense in court, unfit company for innocent people. 6 GOD charts the road you take. The road they take is Skid Row.

I love the fact that God chart the roads we take.

What I'm Chewing On

I love this passage!

Lamentations 3:20  I remember it all—oh, how well I remember— the feeling of hitting the bottom. 21 But there’s one other thing I remember, and remembering, I keep a grip on hope: GOD’S loyal love couldn’t have run out, his merciful love couldn’t have dried up.  They’re created new every morning.  How great your faithfulness!  24  I’m sticking with GOD (I say it over and over). He’s all I’ve got left.

 Lam. 3.25   GOD proves to be good to the man who passionately waits, to the woman who diligently seeks. 26  It’s a good thing to quietly hope,  quietly hope for help from GOD.  It’s a good thing when you’re young to stick it out through the hard times. 28   When life is heavy and hard to take, go off by yourself. Enter the silence. 29  Bow in prayer. Don’t ask questions: Wait for hope to appear.  30 Don’t run from trouble. Take it full-face. The “worst” is never the worst. 31  Why? Because the Master won’t ever walk out and fail to return. If he works severely, he also works tenderly. His stockpiles of loyal love are immense.  33  He takes no pleasure in making life hard, in throwing roadblocks in the way:

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