God loves your enemies

Philip Yancey in his book, What’s so amazing about Grace? asks, why did Dietrich Bonhoeffer strive to love his enemies and pray for his persecutors? He had only one answer: “God loves his enemies – that is the glory of his love, as every follower of Jesus knows.” If god forgave our debts, how can we not do the same? Bonhoeffer wrote,
“Through the medium of prayer we go to our enemy, stand by his side, and plead for him to God. Jesus does not promise that when we bless our enemies and do good to them they will not despitefully use and persecute us. They certainly will. But not even that can hurt or overcome us, so long as we pray for them... We are doing vicariously for them what they cannot do for themselves.”