I sat down with my prayer journal tonight and began to write. I normally don’t like sharing these quiet moments with anyone other than Jesus, but tonight is different. Tonight I was burdened so heavily with a simple message that I cannot just keep it on a piece of paper in a journal only I read. My heart is hurting as I see the perverted way some of the church is exhibiting the love of our Savior. He died so that all may know and experience this love, yet we try to determine who is worthy.
Throughout Scripture, Jesus seeks after the broken, the lost, the confused, the outcasts, the hated, the abused, the possessed, the sinners. Yet, it seems that some of us place ourselves on a pedestal after salvation. We see ourselves as past “that life.” We are free. Thus we are free to determine who else can be free along with us. It doesn’t take rocket science to understand that the world is broken and filled with tragedy. Everything must be political, passionate, and publicized. Discrimination runs rampant. Families fall apart on the daily. Marriages are breaking. Children are being abused. Suicide attempts happen every hour. Parents are disowning their children. Slavery still exists. The world is broken. My fellow Christians – we are still in this world. We are still here. Let us not act as if we are some deity with the capability to transcend all that is around us and make calls as to who is worthy to sit at the feast with us. Christ died so that we may experience love, then called us to share that love through the Gospel with the rest of the world. You can debate this, make it into some doctrinal or political statement, or write it off as something you disagree with. But if you are so opposed to loving those you deem as sinful, you are forgetting that you were once lost. The fact you are found has nothing to do with your ability or innate goodness, but rather the righteous love of a holy God. Christian, woman, Muslim, gay, mentally ill, single mother, soldier, terrorist, politician, transgender, man, adulterer, abused, sick – Christ died so that all might know the fullness of His love. You are called to love no matter if you agree with someone, no matter where they are from, no matter what. May we not be the ones to stand in the way of God’s plan in our futile attempt to play His role. Love like Jesus - sacrificially, whole-heartedly, honestly, fearlessly.
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