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“But love ye your enemies, and do good…and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for He is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil” (Luke 6:35).
It is not easy to love those who do not treat us well, nor is it easy to be kind to those who are not thankful, and who are “bad people.” We tend to be attracted to “nice” people—people who are easy to get along with, and whose company we enjoy.
However, when we accept the Lord Jesus as our Savior, then we have a divine life—the life of Christ. That life is capable of divine love—a love that goes on loving, even if the object of that love does not respond in the right way. That is what the Lord Jesus did when He came into this world. The world rejected Him, and His own nation condemned Him to die. But the Lord’s love for us took Him all the way to Calvary’s cross, where He died for those who hated Him. We are called to show the same love to others.
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