Psalm 83:9-18
English Standard Version (ESV)
It's tough to read passages like this. I want everything and everyone to have a happy, warm and fuzzy ending. Destruction isn't a fun thing to entertain.
But if God is pure love, that means that the hatred and enmity that oppose that love must be destroyed if we want there to be nothing but love one day. If we believe that there is no evil in heaven, then evil must vanish from the face of the earth. I believe that God wants people not to cling to that evil, so that the evil could vanish without people who cling to it, but there are people who refuse to let go of evil.
For them, Jesus says, we should pray. Even for those who seek to do us evil. It is no easy thing, but true love is not easy. It asks much of us, but promises to give much more in return.
May you know pure love today
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