God commands us to love our enemies. He expects us to show up in his house and praise him, even when we don’t feel like it. We protest, and say we do not want to be hypocrites. So we openly hate our enemies, and we absent ourselves from church when we’re ‘not feeling it.’ The Prophet Jonah (yes, he of the whale) may be the best argument in favor of obeying God when our hearts say no. He hates his enemies, the people of Nineveh. Nevertheless, he obeys God, and goes through the city, telling them God will destroy them. They repent, and God spares the city of 100,000 for three generations. This means that nearly 300,000 people will thank Jonah, who hated them, for saving their souls!