Anita and I watched an interesting movie Monday evening called ‘Little Boy’. Its the story of a boy whose father was drafted into World War 2 and becomes a Prisoner of War of the Japanese in the Philippines. The boy gets advice from a Catholic priest on what he can do to see his father come back home. One of his assignments is to help an enemy, which is in the form of a local Japanese immigrant that everyone hates because of his race. The boy goes against everyone in their small town to do the good turn that would help set his father free.

I won’t give away the plot in case any of you want to see the film on Netflix, but it has some twists that held our attention. The boy saw loving his enemy as the key to freeing his father, so against all odds and in the face of all his friends, he acted out his kindness to the Japanese man.

How do you treat your enemies? How do you treat your brothers and sisters? Paul taught us this principle: “Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves” (Romans 12:10). In the family of God, we are in this together.