Not Feeling The Love
John 3:16-17
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, 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.”
It’s the passage that most people who claim to be Christian can drop at the touch of a hat. Yet, it seems to me one of the hardest passages we have trouble believing, or at least adhering to.
Don’t believe me? Well, insert the name of someone you don’t care for place of “the world.” Be it your next door neighbor, the guy who cut you off in traffic, your ex, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin….doesn’t matter. So… and I include myself in this, I’m way too guilty of it…. if God loved THE WORLD, and commanded us to love one another, why aren’t we showing it more? Why do we spend our time thankful that God loves us, but not extending the same grace to others?
I see it in groups on Facebook:
“Sarah Palin is a Dumba** and Should Never Run This Country.”
“Barack Obama Sucks!!!”
“I hate Steve Nash.”
…to name a few.
I see it on picketing signs of supposed Christians. “God hates f*gs.” Seems to be we can pick and choose our beliefs from the Bible but not adhere to the whole thing nowadays.
I’m not innocent on this one. I’m just as guilty of it as the next person. However, I have become more conscious of it recently. And I really have to think… If God died for a nobody like me, because he loved not just me, but THE WORLD, than perhaps I need to make a little more of an effort to spread that same love as well.
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