Why love the unlovable?

If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? (Matthew 5:46-47)

The Christian virtue of loving his enemies is absurdity to the secular world.
 
I’ve tried loving those who love me, but at times i still choose who to love in return. For there are those who love you that you don’t want to loved in return, Right?

How about loving those who don’t love you? It’s been a long desire of mine to sit with someone i don’t know, on a meal. Someone who can’t return the favor i am capable of giving; someone who was neglected by society and family; someone who feels hopeless and rejected. I hope it will happen one day, but should be by chance. I’m looking forward for the day that i will have my dinner with the “out casts”. Just us. No fanfare.

I want it to be a part my lifestyle. Not just a one time event. No, it’s not about being a philanthropist. When that attitude is well-integrated in your being, there’s no special word for it. It simply defines YOU. You won’t see any gap. You’ll just going to see them as another creation like you. You won’t see them as less fortunate, and therefore you won’t see yourself as someone higher than them – in any respect.

But still, there can be walls that would segregate the one you choose to be with, and with them you don’t like. Even in this set-up, you would still pick those whom you think likes you, those who behaves well, those who could say kind words to you… and that makes you a failure.

I’m a failure as i was not able to do it with some whom i think would like me. And it’s a gross failure therefore, that i can’t do it with those who wouldn’t like me.

Yet Matthew 5:44 is commanding Christians to love their enemies. Whoa! Isn’t the Lord is going too far?!?  – Uhh…, probably not.

Jesus is raising a point that in loving those who loves you and greeting only your brothers doesn’t make you any better than the people around you.
It is by loving your enemies and praying for those who insults you that you will become the son of God.

I think i would die a failure. No, it’s not that i “think” am a failure, I BELIEVE I AM and WILL BE A FAILURE. I can only be thankful of God’s graciousness through the blood of Jesus that qualifies me for the sonship. For on my own, I will never be.

It’s not a one time event. Christianity anyway is not a one time experience, it should be a lifetime.

But i still pray that God would enable me to spit out pride and arrogance, for only then i can accept people as to who they are- with their infirmities and shame- just as God clothed me and my Sin with the white robe of Christ’s righteousness.

It might not happen overnight. It might not happen in my lifetime. But I hope to pass it down to any one i’ll meet along the way (maybe sa mga anak, maybe sa mga apo), that they too will enjoy the bliss of creating a difference.