[Manna - July 2]
Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it. 1 Corinthians 4:12
IF you are a faithful pupil
it will not be long until you see that the perfect law
of liberty, the law of Christ, is a discerner of the very
thoughts and intents of the heart, and that while you
must hate all sin, you cannot hate any sinner and yet
have the love of God perfected in your heart....If even
so much as a bitter feeling against our traducers and
maligners arise, it is to be fought, and so complete a
victory gained over it that every fiber of our beings
will be in sweet accord with our Great Teacher's instructions,
"Love your enemies.
Pray for them which
despitefully use you and persecute you.
Bless and
injure not." Z.'99-5 R2412:5