“We are a warlike people, easily distracted from our assignment of preparing for the coming of the Lord. When enemies rise up, we commit vast resources to the fabrication of gods of stone and steel — ships, planes, missiles, fortifications — and depend on them for protection and deliverance. When threatened, we become anti-enemy instead of pro-kingdom of God; we train a man in the art of war and call him a patriot, thus, in the manner of Satan’s counterfeit of true patriotism, perverting the Savior’s teaching [to love your enemies].”—LDS Church President Spencer W. Kimball, 1976

D&C 98:13 And whoso layeth down his life in my cause, for my name’s sake, shall find it again, even life eternal.
14 Therefore, be not afraid of your enemies, for I have decreed in my heart, saith the Lord, that I will prove you in all things, whether you will abide in my covenant, even unto death, that you may be found worthy.
15 For if ye will not abide in my covenant ye are not worthy of me.
16 Therefore, renounce war and proclaim peace, and seek diligently to turn the hearts of the children to their fathers, and the hearts of the fathers to the children…

The entirety of D&C 98 is extremely important to study and ponder. It is a yardstick of where your heart is right now, especially in light of the conflict happening right now in the Middle East. People are angry. Christians are picking sides, forgetting Jesus Christ’s admonition to love your enemies and to be peacemakers. You might not be as Christian as you think if Jesus Christ’s words in His sermon on the mount offend you or if D&C 98 brings out the cynic and unbeliever in you. Maybe you’re not the believer that you think you are after all. Consider this former Hezbollah soldier’s testimony of being confronted by Jesus Christ similar to Apostle Paul’s confrontation. He was a devout Muslim teenager who would have walked on land mines for Allah that attempted to travel to the United States to convert Americans to his cause when he was caught and put in a Malaysian jail with multiple falsified passports. After watching his two videos, you might be able to gauge whether your heart is soft in comparison to his:

Pray for peace! Pray for souls in the Middle East to be preserved and to be saved! Proclaim peace! Say it loudly for your neighbors to hear! Pray for the descendants of Isaac and the descendants of his brother Ishmael to be reconciled with one another and rejoice with their father Abraham!