Silent Enemies

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By: Hanhan

Jesus says, "love your enemies". This is one of the hardest things to do. How can we love people who keep hurting us? How can we forgive them if they always repeatedly do their mistakes? For us, we stopped loving and forgiving people if we badly get worst.

The apostles were even became Jesus' enemies. Judas betrayed him. Peter lied Him three times. Thomas doubted His resurrection. Some of them were gone and flew away when Jesus sentenced to death. They were afraid also to be killed. But what happened after the resurrection of Jesus? Because His love, He never confronted them for their faults and mistakes. He never regret for what they were doing. He still showed His mercy, love and compassion to them. It is God who taught us by example of the importance of loving and forgiving to the people who hurt us, who betrayed us, who lied us and who flew away in times of our sadness that we need them to comfort us, to be with us and even to heal our pains and sufferings.

One apostle asked Jesus if how many times we forgive our brethren? Jesus replied, not only seven times but seventy time seven. Mathematically, seventy times seven is equal to four hundred ninety. Does this mean that we need to make a record or tally in a paper to write down if how many times did our brethren commit mistakes or sins to us? God doesn't want us to calculate the product of seventy times seven because He does not want us also to count the mistakes of others. If His time is not the same of our time, then his counting is different also from what our teachers taught us when we were in elementary. If that what we think that we forgive only people seventy time seven, then for God, it is limitless.

Enemies are everywhere. All of us have enemies right? We can't avoid these people because they are present everywhere. We have enemies in our workplace. It could be our boss or other office mates. Some are in the church. We hate our priest or pastors, the servers or the leaders and other religious people for some reasons. Others could be met in the place where we live. We hate people on the politics and even our Above all, our loved ones could be our enemies too.

What comes to our minds when we talk about enemy is a person that personally hurts and even ruins our lives. But wait... Not only people are our enemies. The enemies I am referring to are somehow very important for our daily lives. In the absence of these, it seems like we stop breathing, we cease dreaming and we pause communicating.

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Actually, it is beyond of our control to lose power supply and poor internet connection. Like for instance, after a typhoon that hits in a certain area or our place itself, we can expectedly experience a loss of electricity and internet connection. This made us angry when no immediate actions are taken. Some people were posting about this kind of issues on different social media. Many will react through comments but only few of them don't understand the whole scenario or even the situation itself as long as they could express their feelings and emotions.

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But the fact is we don't want to go out from our comfort zones. We want an easy life. We don't want these two, poor signal and no electricity will be absent or totally gone in our place and in our lives. Without them, we will suffer of its effect. We will encounter lot of advantages and disadvantages if these two will be absent or gone.

Advantages

  • Less expenses

  • Less radiation

  • Detachment from any gadgets

  • No internet addiction

  • No cyber crime

  • Less pollution

  • Less destruction

Disadvantages

  • Shutdown of all gadgets

  • Difficult to communicate or miscommunication

  • People may not work easier and faster

  • Less information like current issues

  • No water (using water pump)

I would become hypocrite if I would say that I don't need these too. But let me clear this one to you. I also encountered without electricity and even internet connection during the time when typhoon Odette landed on our place. I survived even without them. I am still alive without them. Meaning, our lives would be okay even if it is not okay.

Lot of things will be affected in the absence of these two. Our lives would not be easy. However, we need to be patient of waiting them to come back. Stop blaming other people. Nobody wants all these things to happen. It's also a great loss to the electric and internet or network companies. It's not actually the power supply and internet connection are our enemies. It is me. It is you. And it is us who are the enemies of ourselves.

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Comments

Silent enemies are sometimes our closed friends, and they are very dangerous to our life's keeping God alone is the ultimate. may God deliver us from there mouth, they pretends alot they will cause problem for you and also stand with you what a wicked world

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1 year ago

Let go and Let God. Nabasa ko yan sa isang friend. Hehe! Naku sis sa soleco halos kada gabie brown out ja balik napod siga

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1 year ago

Mao man pod dire sa Dorelco. Wala gani ko nakatan aw sa Probinsyano. Namissed na nako Ang mga episodes nga arang ka nindota na.

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1 year ago

Normal na yata yung pagkabrown out dito saatin. Minsan nga wala pang ulan eh nagbabrown out na dito saamin.

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1 year ago

Dahil cguro sa Dami ng mga users. Nagkaka short ng supply ng electricity dahil sa sobrang demand ng mga gumagamit into kaya cguro nagkaganun sa atin.

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1 year ago

I also agree with you my friend...taking care of ourselves is must ...and silent enemies is more dangerous than a snake

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1 year ago

Yes that's true my friend. An enemy that you don't know that he is anymore in our front. It very dangerous.

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1 year ago

I remember what was Judas's fate when he betrayed Jesus. Is he save when judgement comes?

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1 year ago

Only God knows if Judas doesn't pay His faults. What do you think? Will he be saved?

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1 year ago

As you said only Above knows. I can't judge but we will wait for it until it come.

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1 year ago

Me too I can't judge. We'll wait on final judgment day.

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1 year ago

Truly, that's what's written in the Bible, bless those that curse you, pray for them who despitefully use you. It's quite hard though, I must say but in the end we just have to try loving the people we're meant to hate and talking about the typhoons, I never knew typhoon Odette has started, I read in someone's article, few weeks back that typhoon odette comes after typhoon agaton

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1 year ago

I was thankful for that additional insights my friend Ellawrites. God bless you po.

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1 year ago

That's the concrete example of love that Jesus taught us like what He did. He offered his life for us. So we don't have reason not love our neighbor even our enemies. You're right my friend Ellawrites. After Odette, Agaton was next that caused some damages and even loss of many lives.

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1 year ago

Indeed there are things that is beyond our control and with that we just let God be in control.

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1 year ago

Yes you're right my friend Articlee. We are all independent to God. Not all we can do through our own capabilities.

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1 year ago

You called him jesus. We Muslim people called him Esa alaiwasallam. He was one of the great prophet.

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1 year ago

Yes, He's name is Jesus, the sweetest name of all. He promised us for eternal life if we believed in Him.

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1 year ago

Yes He was a great prophet. He is also a king and a priest. Those were his three missions on earth.

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1 year ago

Exactly, taking care of yourself is the first thing you should do to achieve that peace you seek while waiting to solve problems in others.

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1 year ago

Thanks for that comment my friend. I appreciate it.

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1 year ago

Using our own intellect and understanding, it's looks so abnormal to love the same people that are killing you. But what can we say, the heaven law require us to love everybody including our enemies as we love ourselves

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1 year ago

Thank you so much my friency Kacy for giving me additional inputs. I really appreciate it.

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1 year ago

That's what we call life. Love and forgive even it hurts. We love not because we are commanded to but because the joy we've felt after we forgave people.

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1 year ago

Love your enemies. It's so difficult to do yet we need to do. God forgive and we do too.

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1 year ago

Thank you my friend for dropping by.

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1 year ago

At the start, it's hard to forgive. But as days go by, our hearts will not be hardened. We could realize that we don't have peace in our minds and hearts if we will not forgive causing us to stress, illness and even death in some cases.

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1 year ago