Our natural inclination is to repay evil with evil -- that way we're even. If we're on the losing end, we feel like we're falling short. But Paul calls us to always seek to do good to everyone... which is a really, really hard thing to take into the world. Maybe this is why Paul follows it up with a word to pray without ceasing, because Paul knows that the only way we'd ever be able to do good to everyone is to be in prayer constantly! Jesus was able to do good to everyone, even the people who were crucifying him, but we're not Jesus.
So may we pray for the Spirit to be alive within us, guiding us, leading us, so that we learn how to be constantly grateful. For if we're constantly grateful to God, that enables us to be good to everyone, because when we're focused on what God has given us, we're not worried about the world can take away from us, because we know that God's gifts cannot be taken away no matter how strong the world may be.
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