How to Love Difficult People: Transforming the your thought life - Paperback

by Michael S. Ericson (Author)

Readers are instructed to love those in their lives who are challenging to love.

We won't ever be able to stop other people from making us feel bad with their words or actions. There will always be reasons for us to be outraged. But we can choose to spare ourselves a lot of suffering and hardship if we choose to do things God's way. This does not imply that we consent to being abused. No, there is a proper time to address individuals and deal with circumstances. Even though it seems impossible, the Bible instructs us to forgive those who have wronged us and to love our adversaries.

In the end, whatever the Lord commands us to do in the Bible is for our own benefit. In actuality, we serve ourselves more than anybody else when we choose to love our adversaries and forgive those who have wronged us. Because the Lord will empower us with the Holy Spirit to carry out all of His commands, including loving and treating difficult people well! Use kindness as a weapon to combat people's meanness because the love that flows through us from God is potent enough to soften even the hardest hearts.