Love

I've been listening to a conference series about love. Can I just say, I don't think that Christians are living the way we are intended to live, at all. If God didn't have a purpose for you to be here, He would have taken you to Heaven the second you were saved. We aren't here to live like everybody else. We aren't here to get whatever we want because we're children of the King and we "deserve it", like some of those tv preachers teach. We are here to love people, and through that love we are Christ to the world.

Did you know that Christians are the worst tippers ever? It's common for restaurants to despise serving Christians, because they leave a terrible tip and a "Are you going to Heaven?" tract. Did you know that Christians are also the worst workers? It's common for employers to despise hiring Christians, because they don't work! Did you know that if every Christian in America alone tithed (as we are COMMANDED to do, by the way) we could end world poverty and have millions or billions left over? But are Christians in America tithing? Nope. HELLO!! We aren't exactly giving ourselves, or our God, a great name.

Gandhi said, "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians."

What are you doing to stand out? To be different from the world? To show the love of Christ? Most of us it seems aren't loving the world, because we are still waiting to be loved. We don't feel loved, we don't feel worthy. So we do things to change ourselves. To be better. The fact of the matter is, as long as you are waiting to feel loved and to feel worthy or to be enough, you are focusing on yourself and not on others. We ARE loved. We ARE worthy. The Word says so. God loves us so much that His love should absolutely burst out of us onto others.

Sometimes I serve someone at work, who is totally rude, and later find out they're a Christian. It saddens me. They have no love or gratitude for me or anyone else. They're missing the whole point.

We can't miss this point. We can't afford to. People are dying, the world is in chaos, self worth is lower than ever. We must love others. Not because we are suppost to, not because we are obligated to, but because that's just who we are, it's just what we do. We love because we are changed by Christ's love.

So let's change the world.