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Actually it isn't nearly as difficult as it sounds, it just takes some practice.

A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.

After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.

Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.

I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.

I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.

If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.

I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.

Love and blessings

Your brother

Don

Only for .5% of the population.

Unless you count "enemy" as the guy who steals your paper every morning and not someone who seriously wronged you.

That is the culmination of our earthly sojourns. We have to learn to see the Christ in all our fellow man before we can graduate from

earth school.

It is an attitude adjustment problem for most of us. Jesus

forgave his murderers prior to dying. He understood that

condemning his fellow man just makes the illusion real.

Christ is in your fellow man, as Christ is within you. Practice

seeing the good in everyone - always.

No. By definition it is not.

I think the challenge is bases on an illogical premise.

all of jesus teaching was under the old law, but at his death he ushered in a new covenant, jesus gave his life for you so he could give his life to you so he could live his life in and through you today, this is how we live the christian life by abiding in the vine (jesus) we are the branch and the life is in the vine with jesus we can do nothing, but if wewill abide in him he will make our paths stright, and he will produce the love, peace, kindness, meekness in and through us, we can't live the christian life but if we will abide in him he will live it through us. apart from jesus we can do nothing.we stand in his rightiousness this is what gets us into heaven, it is all of jesus and none of me.

It is possible to arrive a t a stage, a situation, where there is no enemy! all are friends!

Yes. But first you must change your perception about who is actually your enemy.

It might be possible if they were bikini clad Amazons.

is it possible...YES, is it easy...NO. this is something that as a christian i have to ask God for help on a daily basis. it's easy to love those who are good to you, but much harder to love those that hurt you.

"I love them in the sense that I want to destroy them."