Loving & Forgiving – Like Jesus!
Last night in Life Group it was great to listen and share as we began to dive into the Scriptures together. Loving like Jesus is a huge calling. Loving the Lord with all of our heart, soul and mind requires the believer to look past self and see only the Lord and our Savior Jesus. It’s saying NO to our flesh and YES to the Holy Spirit. It’s saying “not my will but thy will be done”. How successful are you with that one?
Then we shared about “loving our neighbor as ourselves”. Love is easy to talk about but it’s totally another thing to put love in action. Love IS an action word. Talk is cheap. We SAY we love people… of all classes, colors and backgrounds. We SAY we love them with the love of Jesus yet we many times are judgemental about them (hair, weight, tatoo’s, color, clothing, speach, etc.). Loving people like Jesus loves them forces us out of our own fleshly comfort zones and causes us to have to reach past the exterior of man and see the heart. We MUST love people (saved and lost). We must practice forgiveness and not judging others. The only person who has the right to judge anyone is the Lord and He loved people enough to sacrifice His only Son on the cross. What about you? Do you REALLY love people or is it all just a bunch of religious words? Do you really reach past the exterior of a person and seek to touch their heart? Are you a hypocrite – who SAYS you love people and yet practice being judgemental about them? Talk is cheap – love is an action word. Let’s LOVE people like Jesus does! Just something to think about and pray about today!! Pastor James