Be The Few

There is a wolf and a lamb that inhabit our hearts and which are eternally on dispute. The wolf living inside of us is called flesh, and it is our selfish and sinful nature. The lamb, on its side, is called spirit, human's natural tendency of walking towards his creator. You see, we know for a fact that by its own nature, the lamb is weaker than the wolf; the latter is, naturally, a predator of the former. Looking at it this way makes it easier to understand that we don't have to feed the wolf so that it remains strong and beats the lamb in their daily fights, more than that, in the struggles that we face every time we have a decision to make. No! On the contrary, we must keep him chained and shackled at all times, for it is not a domesticable animal that we can carry around on our laps, or even walk with using a leash as we would with a pet... This way it could easily devour the lamb. The lamb, this one should be well fed and taken care of so that it gets stronger...

I'm here thinking to myself about the order (that's right, the order, or better the orderS because the verbS are on the imperative tense) of Jesus that we pray for our enemies... But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; - Matthews 5:44 We have so many reasons to do what Christ commands us, though many others try to conspire against: in obedience to Christ we do what He orders us, as servants that wish to well serve our Lord; when we pray and love, we put our hearts in disposition to the Lord so that He changes our feelings towards our enemy. Notice that the feeling only changes (though it doesn't necessarily change) after obedience; when we do what Christ commands us to do, we move our faith away from theory and into practice; by doing good to our enemy, we leave revenge to God, whom it really belongs to (Romans 12:19); by treating with benev...