I know I'm a sinner and I get along best with sinners, because WHOM am I to judge? There are SO many freakishly uptight christians, sad but true! A lot don't know how to be normal and accepting, or don't understand what it is to be real and end up hiding who they really are. This can be scary, but what's scarier is thinking you know God and in all actuality you don't because you're not seeking Him. When we seek Him, love Him, and KNOW Him; it reflects in our lives and HOW we communicate with others. I'm the worst at living the gospel. The only difference between me and non-christians is: the Cross. I have confessed and laid down my sin at the Cross (where Christ died) and believe in Him as my Lord and Savior. I could NEVER save myself, that's why God sent Jesus for us! The Cross gives me access to have the relationship I have with God. God's grace showers me everyday and gives me hope. I goof up daily, yet knowing my past and understanding God's love for me overwhelms me with a passion to draw closer towards Him which in turn fires a flame in me to be more like him. I relate best with non-christians because I can't hide my flaws, I accept people the way they are because that's how God accepts me. Christians that proclaim Jesus yet, don't know how to love as Jesus does have a hard time with someone like me. Why you ask? I don't know, you figure it out because frankly, I really don't care. I'm just going to keep on loving EVERY single person I meet. Yup, that includes gays, christians, killers, trans-genders, adulterers, drug addicts, fat people, skinny people, porn stars, mean people, funny people, tax collectors, the homeless, and WHATEVER PPL!
Not understanding someone does NOT justify not helping them or serving them. Of course its easy to wash others feet that you love and get along with. Yet, its hard to serve those that have hurt us or those we judge, we struggle helping people that are totally different from us in the light of perception and views, people we don't clique with or feel comfortable around. When we assume that someone already has others to assist them or the government will take care of them, that's where we as christians have failed and deny 1 Corinthians 12:25-27. Is it truth or not? "there should be no division in the body(of Christ), but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is part of it."
If you see a need- FILL it, be the hands and feet of Christ. That small tingle when you see a car accident or someone struggling to stay warm or a mom trying to carry too much, THAT is God/the Holy Spirit speaking to you, telling you to stop your busy schedule and share Him! Hug the soul that just got hit by another car OR dare to hug freely the one that caused the accident, give the shivering soul the coat off your own back and a fresh cup of hot chocolate, go alongside the mother holding the baby at the grocery store and put her groceries up on the check out counter from her cart. Don't just pick one! Constantly, continuously, BE what Jesus has commanded us to be: His disciples. People that not only know His words and go to church weekly but FOLLOWERS that actually follow his ways! We should be his(God's) biggest fans, passionately desiring to become more like him.
Romans 12:1-3 says "Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God- this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is- his good, pleasing and perfect will. For by the grace given me I say to every one of you; Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you."
beautiful.
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