{"id":330,"date":"2019-01-25T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/judge-them-oh-lord\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:16:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:16:23","slug":"judge-them-oh-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"Judge Them Oh Lord!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As my readers know, I am a sunny sky, rainbows-after-rain, kind-of-writer, but it seems irreverent to not acknowledge the dark clouds that blew in when New York lawmakers legalized abortion until birth. My heart ached when I saw the \u201ccelebration\u201d and the gleeful faces of those lawmakers in my newsfeed.<\/p>\n

My heart cries out \u201cJudge them, oh Lord!\u201d What was Jesus thinking when He said, in Matthew 5:44, \u201cLove your enemies! Bless them that curse you! Do good to them that hate you! Pray for them who spitefully use you, and persecute you!\u201d Quite frankly, I\u2019d like to request that hail, fire, and brimstone be unleashed on those cray crays. Lord, have mercy!<\/p>\n

Now that I\u2019ve had my venting moment, I must repent and remember Christ\u2019s teachings to love in spite of the evil in our world, but we shouldn\u2019t ignore what we can do besides praying and raise our voices in proclaiming \u201cLIFE MATTERS!\u201d<\/p>\n

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In Psalm 69 David cries out to God about his enemies, \u201cLet their own table before them become a snare; and when they are at peace, let it become a trap. Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and make their loins tremble continually. Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your burning anger overtake them.” Whew! Don\u2019t those words make us want to team up with David and say \u201cHit \u2018em with your best shot, Lord?\u201d<\/p>\n

Can’t we pray the way David did? Can’t we ask for God to pour out his wrath upon evildoers? Jesus showed up and flipped all that on its heels when He said: “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” That whole \u201cloving our enemies\u201d doesn\u2019t make sense in this world, but, oh, lest I forget, it\u2019s a command from another world \u2013 an entirely different kingdom than this one. It\u2019s the \u201cKingdom of Heaven\u201d world which is rooted in God\u2019s own love for HIS enemies.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what that world looks like: Christ loved His enemies by feeding them, teaching them, and having compassion on them even when He knew they would later kill Him. The world \u2013 this world — which is full of corrupt, evil people who continually refuse to follow Him is the very same world Christ was sent to reconcile and redeem. Christ came to earth to be a servant for the sake of His enemies so that they might know Him and come to love Him.<\/p>\n

With his dying breath, Jesus prayed for those who put Him to death. \u201cAnd Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.\u201d Luke 23:34. He showed His great compassion and love for the world even while they hated Him. God\u2019s eyes are not closed to the evil of this world. He will judge all one day. Father, for those whose hearts are cold, may You open their eyes and plant in their hearts a love for the treasure of life and the strength to protect it. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Lord, have mercy on us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As my readers know, I am a sunny sky, rainbows-after-rain, kind-of-writer, but it seems irreverent to not acknowledge the dark clouds that blew in when New York lawmakers legalized abortion until birth. My heart ached when I saw the \u201ccelebration\u201d and the gleeful faces of those lawmakers in my newsfeed. My heart cries out \u201cJudge…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[102,103,104,105,106,107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-david","tag-evil","tag-father-forgive","tag-gods-wrath","tag-hail-fire-and-brimstone","tag-judge-them-lord","tag-kingdom-of-heaven","tag-life-matters","tag-lord-have-mercy","tag-love-your-enemies","tag-luke-2334","tag-matthew-544","tag-psalm-69"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9077,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/9077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}