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+** Input from the Lord ...**
+The main purpose of these lines is not to declare your complete defeat to your enemies. It does
+not tell you never to fight. But it tells you to take your enemy serious as a human being. It
+tells you to start a relationship, one of love, of understanding. It tells you to deescalate.
+It does not tell you to be naive or blind! On the contrary, it tells you to open your eyes.
+You cannot understand the command, when you do not start to understand living as a believer,
+as a kid of God. Giving in means to let things go - and that is one of the basic steps you
+need when you come to faith. God is giving us life, he is giving us dignity, all this earth is
+his. So we can let go, he is the Lord, he gives, he provides, and he has made more beauty on
+this planet than we can ever comprehend!
+When I think about my enemies, I feel more like falling ill. I feel the wish to leave and go away.
+Is the command touching our feelings? Or is it talking about decisions only, about action? I
+think it is talking about everything! And it is challenging us, to go to the Lord himself, and
+ask him for his spirit, for his transformation, for his presence in our life today!
 (Roland Potthast)
 [[http://www.jesusnetwork.eu/en/topics_collection_ix|... further texts]]
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