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God Wants Us to Overcome Evil by Being Good to Our Enemies ㅡ

 “Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. 

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.” (Romans 12:20-21) 

 In this probationary time we are forming our characters for the future immortal life.

 We may never know until the judgment the influence of a kind, considerate course of action to the inconsistent, the unreasonable, and unworthy. 

 If, after a course of provocation and injustice on their part, you treat them as you would an innocent person, you even take pains to show them special acts of kindness, then you have acted the part of a Christian; 

and they become surprised and ashamed, and see their course of action and meanness more clearly than if you plainly stated their aggravated acts to rebuke them.

 If you had laid their wrong course of action before them, they would have braced themselves in stubbornness and defiance. 

 

 But to be treated in tenderness and consideration they feel more deeply their own course of action, and contrast it with yours. 

 Then ... you occupy vantage ground; and when you show a solicitude for their souls, they know that you are no hypocrite, but that you mean every word you say.

 Souls who have cost the life of God’s only-begotten Son must be estimated in value by the immense ransom paid for them; and, rich or poor, black or white, must be treated in respect to the value Christ has placed upon the human soul.

 

(Medical Ministry 209, 210)