“Loving” Unlovable People

Since God chose you to be the holy people he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others. -Colossians 3:12‭-‬13

Have you ever met or come across someone who lashed out at you for no apparent reason, especially when you have not done anything to that person?

There are people who take out their frustration, insecurity, prejudice, bitterness, jealousy and hurt as a cruel release.

All bitterness does not stem from hurt, all hatred does not stem from ignorance, all insecurity does not stem from jealousy.

Some people are just mean-spirited, ill-tempered, high-strung, having a bad day, miserable, emotionally unstable, or suffering with a psychological issue.

The important thing to remember is to not always take their attacks personal. If a reference is actually negatively directed at you for whatever cause defend yourself if necessary, but also do your best to ignore and to avoid any confrontation.

Some people want to pull you down because they are unhappy, they want to see you get into trouble due to something not going right in their life, and some people just get satisfaction out of seeing another person stumble or fall.

Jesus would advise us to pray for people who behave in unfriendly or hostile ways toward us. It is hard to be nice and to genuinely reflect a kind attitude to vicious or antagonizing people. It all depends on one’s own personality and/or natural response to the situation.

You can be nice to people and they will still try to hurt or mistreat you.

Whether others eventually feel bad, regret their actions and apologize, or continue on to be rude, unpleasant and prideful. They do not have to spoil your joy.

We may sometimes get ticked off by others, yet their conduct is not guaranteed to affect our spirit or to bring to us any significant harm.

I have had quite a few incidents within the past with people of various intentions who displayed their, jealousy, ignorance, and triviality against me, and I was neither hurt nor affected by what they had intended or what they had expected to result from the depths of within me. Some individuals are limited within their own scope of discernment and rationality, and are unable to acknowledge distinction and truth within others.

One of Jesus’s statements was to love others, including our enemies. To be extremely candid, I do not even love certain members of my family- let alone people who may turn me off in certain ways.

In fact, I don’t even want to love specific kinds of people. I don’t necessarily have to hate them either, however, as a fact, we are not going to like and get along with everybody in this God-forsaken world.

There are people’s whose spirits we are just not going to take to. People who have jumped to conclusions and/or started trouble with me on account of incentives that reflect their own shortcomings and predisposed tendencies I do not care about.

I do not have the time, patience, or sympathy for those on a level that they do not seek to rise from. Although, unfortunately, some are unable to attain to a higher mental capacity for learning and understanding to a particular wavelength.

I honestly have no sincere regard for people that I consider to be undesirable.

There are people who harshly judge or misjudge us without even truly knowing us or anything about us, and they sometimes create discord and chaos.

A lot of people will downplay their feelings about unsavory people and will not admit to the unwillingness to really desire to accept and to “love” individuals that we cannot tolerate.

I believe God would appreciate honesty over hypocrisy and false behavior. The Lord wants us to be true and to come to him about any concerns or disagreements that we may have. His holy spirit is there to aide, lead, and shed light on each of our particular circumstances. Every one of us are different and so are our situations the Lord responds to his children accordingly and uniquely.

God knows how to deal with every conflict, need, and solution to our peace and wellbeing. Always give all matters to him to handle, he will sort it out.

While we do not actually have to deeply love our enemies or people who are insignificant to us in the same fashion as we do our parents, pets, or children, and so on- which is impossible for me- we are definitely called to be polite and humane. We are to treat others as we want to be treated even when we are being mistreated.

It may be hard for some to constantly maintain this course of action flawlessly. We may all slip up from time to time, especially when we get angry and utter bad words under our breaths, frustrated at the trying efforts to do what is right by those who present just the opposite.

It is a process for many that God will gradually and eventually prepare and serve up for your awareness and benefit.

God knows that we are not perfect and are unable to perform his certain requirements solely on our own. He is patient and kind, merciful and compassionate, there to pick us up when we are unable to carry the heavy or complicated load.

Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony. And let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts. For as members of one body you are called to live in peace. And always be thankful. And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father. -Colossians 3:14‭-‬15‭, ‬17