Love your enemies

Loving your enemies is probably one of the hardest things to do. It is for me at least. It is hard to love someone who hates you, someone who hurts you, or someone who stands against everything that you do. Romans 12:9 says "Love must be sincere..." You can't love someone who you have hatred towards, the two cannot exist together. So how do you really love your enemy?
First, we have to fully and whole heatedly love God. We have to love him first and foremost, even before we can love the people who are easy to love. Mark 13:30 says "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength." This is such a powerful verse! Jesus is straight up saying you have to love me with everything you've got and with everything you are! If you really loved God with all your heart; putting him first, doing his will, and what pleases him, and you let you let your soul overflow with his love and mercy, and focused every thought on him, and loved and cared for him with every ounce of strength you had so that you fell on the ground before him everyday, then nothing else would matter. All the troubles of this world will fade away into nothing. Whether or not someone hates you and is persecuting you doesn't infect you with hatred for that person, but with joy! You would be able to take anything the world threw at you with pure joy and patience. You would bless the ones who persecute you and pierce you for your faith. God's love changes you, but only if you let it.
Jesus goes on to say in Mark 12:31 "Love your neighbor as yourself." Now we have all heard this a thousand times, which i am not saying is a bad thing. You can take this verse in many different directions, but we are only going to look at it from one aspect; your enemies are your neighbors too. If we loved our enemies as we love ourselves we wouldn't call them names, talk bad about them, give them dirty looks, or anything like that. If we truly love God as it says to in verse 30, we wouldn't feel compelled to do any of those things. We would be filled with peace.
Never give anyone any reason to dislike you, other than for reasons regarding your love for God. Being kind and showing love and concern for someone who treats you horribly and hurts you is one of the greatest ways to show Christ's love.
Showing love and mercy to someone who has only treated you badly and hurts you convicts them far more than anything hurtful or mean you could ever do to them. No matter what, God is always going to overcome evil. We have to start believing that. God is going to take care of you. He will repay those who do you wrong, it's not our job.
"Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written; "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," says the Lord. On the contrary: "If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head." Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." -Romans 12:17-21