Does Love Pour Coals?
Love in Spirit and Truth?
Reader: Yes, you can love your enemies, feed them, give them drink, and clothe them. These acts of kindness and love will reap coals of fire upon their head as the Scriptures say. It is a way of politely "getting back" without the "eye for an eye" approach.
Response: Try to understand what blindness does to us. When King David’s enemies were sick, he mourned for them as if it was his own mother sick. He did not wish that it reaped coals of fire upon their head, for that would mean he hated his mother. The verses in Proverbs and Romans you are using refer to a custom of warming up one’s turban on a cold day. Working from a blind spot, we misinterpret the purpose of verses.
Word said that as we do unto the least among us, we do it unto him. We would not want to see that done to Jesus, would we? We need the spiritual truth that Word taught on how to see and love our enemies the way Name does, the same way He sees and loves Jesus. I pray you learn that you said “getting back” without knowing what you were doing. That is what spiritual blindness does to us.
Reader: But David mourned for those who did not believe in the one true God.
Response: Instead of seeking the knowledge to learn how to truly love your enemies, you just focused on why David mourned for his enemies and avoided the key point right out of the mouth of Jesus. As we treat others, we are treating Jesus. We are to mourn for those who do not love their enemies, ignorant of how they are treating Jesus, not judge them for their beliefs. You are misusing Old Testament verses. You are of a different spirit in Christ.
Pray that you may move on to maturity and stop laying the foundation of faith, Hebrews 6:1-3. Maturity is all about mature agapé, unconditional love, needed to love our enemies, the enemies of the human conscience. It starts with us being forgiven much. Faith does not get us forgiven in the end. Remember Luke 7:47—her sins were many but she was forgiven BECAUSE she loved much. When we do not think our sins are many, it is because we forget to count the sin of not loving our enemies.
Doing our part to have our blindness removed is not as hard as it seems. It is all about learning how to love with the eyes of our heart. We can love those who hate us from these eyes when we understand how to see them in spirit and truth, not according to their physical presence, just as Word said to worship Name in spirit and truth.
The Eyes of Democracy (Introduction and Index of Articles)
1 John 3:15-18 KJV
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. [16] Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. [17] But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? [18] My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
Love doesn't pour coals but it will make you feel as though you are weak when actually your strong and have overcome what the world has set against or even try to set forth. Jesus have overcome the world even though they believed on him not. I appreciate your creativity and pray God will continue to use your gift of writing to inspire those who know him not or is getting to know him. God bless.