The Old Testament Law was very specific when it came to personal injuries. Exodus 21:23-24 says, “But if there’s serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.” And Leviticus 24:19-20 went on to direct, “If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As he has injured the other, so he is to be injured.” So when Jesus spoke these words of passive resistance and tolerance rather than retaliation and revenge…it turned these Old Testament Laws on their heads. Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, came to earth declaring a message of love and harmony with our fellow man…and not of repaying evil for evil. (Romans 12:17 & I Peter 3:9)
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Hebrews 13:1 ” Keep on loving each other as brothers.”
The kind of love spoken about here is Philadelphia, or brotherly love…a Christian love, one to another, born out of a common spiritual life. But let’s admit it…some fellow Christians are just plain hard to love! They rub us the wrong way, are argumentative, and are always seeing the glass half empty sort of people. But the Scripture here calls us to keep on loving, despite how we feel. By simply asking the Lord to see them through His eyes may give us insight into the why…but for many times, it will have to be our attitude that changes not theirs.
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