We Are Called To Love

As Christians it’s so easy for us to fall into judging others. We get all caught up in things like politics and our own personal opinion on different controversial topics that we forget to love. We like to judge other people because it makes us feel better about our own sin. I have to admit that I am guilty of thinking of how someone I know really needs to hear a message that I just heard at church because of something that I think that they are doing wrong. Let’s face it, all of us have let ourselves fall into a thought pattern similar to this at least a few times, if not all the time. Everyday I have to remind myself to chose to love and forgive when I see someone hurt me or people around me.

Sometimes we let ourselves get all self-righteous. We think that we have the right to judge, but in reality we really don’t. The Apostle Paul put it this way, “For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God,” ( Romans 3: 23). When we criticize other people for their sin we are being hypocrites because we all do the same things. Maybe you haven’t done the same things as the person next to you, but we’ve all sinned. The only one who hasn’t is God himself. He, therefore, is the only one who has the right to judge, but he doesn’t. Instead, he chooses to love. He loved each one of us even at the beginning when he was creating the world. He loved us even when we thought that we were unlovable. He loved us so much that “he sent his one and only son, so that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world but to save the world through him,” ( John 3: 16 - 17). Jesus didn’t have to come and die for our sins so that we could be set free, but he did anyway because that’s who he is. He is the light of the world. The hope that reached down into despair so that we could find life, and now he is calling you to rise up. Jesus tells us to be salt and light ( Matthew 5: 13 - 16). In other words, he is asking us to love people the way that he first loved us: unconditionally. So the next time that someone does something rude to you or the people you love, remember that God chose to love us when he could have chosen to judge.

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