We do well when we serve others and push our selfish needs to the back of the line. Christians ought to be the first people to consider others first rather than having a toxic desire for others to serve us, and when they don't meet our needs, to ruthlessly cut them out of our lives. This is not the Christian way.
Love is hard. It is difficult especially when we are in the right and the other person is in the wrong. Love needs to exercise wisdom, compassion, and forgiveness. Paul loved his fellow Jews, but when they didn't listen to him, he didn't stubbornly go back to preach to deaf ears, but exercised wisdom and went to the gentiles. But he did not stop praying for them. In fact, he wished that he himself could be cut off from God if his brothers could be saved.
To those that are hard to love and no longer wish us to be in their lives, exercise wisdom. Keep your distance but pray hard for them and seek them in their time of need and welcome them with forgiveness if they need your help. Whoever came to the Lord Jesus, he never cast out. Likewise, let us in love cast no one out and do all of our duties towards our brothers and enemies in accordance with the word of God.
K.Oni
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