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Pop culture almost suggests that it’s okay to have enemies. Batman has the joker. Nicki Minaj has Cardi B. You’ve got Kanye West versus Taylor Swift (and everyone else) and Taylor Swift against her most current ex boyfriend. Culture demands, and logic dictates that superheroes need villains in order to exist. 

When we make other people our opponents, we trade ourselves off God’s team. God’s goal is for everyone to experience His love. When we hesitate to share that love with everyone, we block God’s plan for His Kingdom. But sometimes people do things that really hurt us. A break-up might be hard to recover from. Someone breaks our trust. Someone gossips or starts a rumor about us. Those people deserve to be on a list of our enemies. But if we got what we deserved, then we wouldn’t be on God’s list.  We wouldn’t know or experience God’s forgiveness, love or grace. We don’t deserve God’s grace any more or less than another person. He doesn’t give Himself to us because of what we deserve.  He gives it to us because of who HE is.