Daily Show: January 24, 2013
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How should you treat your enemy? According to Proverbs, the best way is to show kindness. Perhaps you will win him over. Perhaps you will only make him mad. Either way, you will be rewarded.
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Yes, this is a very good proverb. And it has ties with Matt 5: 43-48 – the verses dealing with “love your enemies”. As it says, loving those that love us is natural, but even the evil do that. How would that distinguish us from the evil. But we are different in that we can love those that are evil, while the evil cannot love those that are good.
I remember one of my friends, many many years ago, discussing an application of this proverb. He helped out someone who was an enemy of his (a bully I think). This got the bully aggravated since he wanted to attack my friend, but couldn’t hurt someone who had done him good (which goes along with the “heaping hot coals upon his head” idea).
Definitely; there are lots of modern stories of people who’ve taken this advice to heart with unexpected (although it shouldn’t be unexpected to us!) results. There’s a lot of cultural “logic” against helping someone who has/will hurt you, but, I’ll take true Biblical logic over cultural norms any day!