How To Love Difficult People
Mornings with The Masters
Chad & Tori Masters
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Hi y'all! In this episode Tori and I talk about a strategy to love those who we honestly don't want to love. The people we have conflict with, disagree with, and maybe don't have much in common with. The Lord has commanded us to love those people and so it's important to have a plan in how to do so!
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning everyone and welcome back to another morning with the masters where we devote |
| 0:14.8 | ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning you guys. We are rounding out day four of our |
| 0:20.2 | how to love your neighbors devotional and the Bible app. There's a link to that description |
| 0:24.0 | this podcast if you don't follow along with us and as always I'm going to read the scripture |
| 0:27.8 | and then Tori's going to read the divo. Let's do it. The scripture is John 13 verses 34 |
| 0:32.9 | and 35 and it says this a new command I give you love one another as I have loved you so you |
| 0:41.3 | must love one another by this everyone will know that you are my disciples if you love one another. |
| 0:48.7 | The devotional today is titled Difficult People and it says we're finishing this plan with perhaps |
| 0:56.2 | the hardest aspect of loving our neighbor inevitably will encounter people who are just more |
| 1:03.3 | difficult to love. People in this category might have different beliefs or viewpoints than we do |
| 1:10.1 | and we can often find ourselves frustrated when they don't agree with us. We don't have to stay |
| 1:16.4 | in this frustrated place. In fact we can take insight from this Bible plans previous days and |
| 1:23.3 | actually apply it here. Here are three ways to love difficult people. One, show compassion. |
| 1:32.1 | We don't always know the background or experiences of someone. We might make assumptions but it's |
| 1:38.6 | often very short-sighted of us to think we can know why someone acts that way without really knowing |
| 1:45.6 | them. So let's show compassion for people instead of jumping to conclusions that may be untrue. |
| 1:53.7 | Two, focus on similarities. There will always be someone we don't agree with. In fact there's |
| 2:00.8 | probably no one on the planet that we agree with fully. We can narrow in on what divides us |
| 2:08.0 | or we could simply choose to focus on where we're united. Three, pray. This is the most valuable |
| 2:17.4 | thing you can do but it isn't the only thing. Praying for people we don't agree with will soften |
| 2:24.1 | our hearts towards them. We'll begin to truly want what's best for them but we must also pray for |
| 2:31.6 | ourselves that will exhibit the fruit of the spirit as we interact with others. Some of the people |
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