Actual Christianity

Jesus says to love my enemies, but I don’t have any. What gives?

Perhaps “enemies” was too strong a word when used by Jesus. What Jesus really meant was anyone who stands in direct opposition to you, those cast as rivals, adversaries, or even cultural opposites. The ones labeled ‘enemies’ are not those that are guilty of outright hostility towards you; it extends to the subtle divisions society constantly reinforces. If you’re a New Yorker, extend peace and blessings to a Patriots fan. If you’re a Republican, offer goodwill to those your party might label “woke.” If you’re a Democrat, send blessings even to the Trump supporter you know personally. Every time the world tempts you to declare someone an enemy, take that as your cue to instead affirm in your consciousness that they are one with you. Resist the urge to engage in conflict and instead say to yourself:

“I extend peace and blessings to all who gather here, for we are one and the same, children of our Father. Any differences among us are illusionary I ask our father and Holy Spirit to eliminate those illusions of separation.”

From this place of awareness, every distinction, political, cultural, personal, shifts from being a dividing line to becoming an invitation to reaffirm our unity. Let your instinct, your new reflex, be to recognize: “This is my brother, this is my sister; we are one in the family of God.” History shows us the danger of forgetting this truth. Emperors of old often conquered regions not by direct force alone, but by dividing people against each other. Knowing how effective this strategy has always been, we should see clearly why society’s constant push to pit us against one another must be resisted because unity protects us from being controlled by malicious powers. We see this done deliberately within our own culture as well. Division made domination easy. When you see someone who you typically see yourself diametrically opposed with for any reason then “god bless them, I am not superior to them for we are one and the same as our fathers children”

There is a constant egotistical need to see yourself as superior to others, so when that happens, nip it in the bud and declare them as your family and your oneness with them. “I accept our unity and oneness as our father’s children”. Anyone you used to judge as being annoying, wrong, bad tastes, diametrically opposed for any reason. Noticing those differences are your cues to let go of any judgments of whatever traits you observed about them and declare them your literal family because that’s all we literally are. One with the universe. The more you do this, the more you chip away at its ego and its desire to see itself as separate and distinct from each other.

To use the example of ceasing judgment, it is powerful because it breaks the ego’s habit of seeing yourself as superior to others. This shift restores peace and equality within your consciousness and brings you back into harmony with the world and the universe. In the same way, when you stop labeling others as opposition simply because their tastes or opinions differ from yours, you dissolve that same hierarchy your ego was creating through judgment. The goal is always the same: to restore equilibrium, peace, oneness, and equality with everyone, no matter how superficially different or even contradictory their views, preferences, or ways of being may seem, because despite those illusions we are literally one and equal. Your goal is to dissolve those illusory differences.

If you’re a democrat, reinforce your oneness by sending your love and blessings to republicans, and vice versa. If you find this to be a difficult hurdle for yourself to overcome, that’s a sign that your ego and identity has taken its full grip on you, and you need to chip away at it as much as possible. Invoke your affirmations that remind you that you are one with them, and we are all collectively children of our father and source. When someone has their own tastes or points of view, that’s their prerogative, that doesn’t make them distinct from you as much as your ego wants you to believe it does. Division is all it wants. The more you chip away at this, the closer you get to enlightenment and experiencing oneness with the universe that’s within all of us.

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