How do you determine you love someone? Is it because of the way they talk? The way someone may look? The color of their skin? Their accent? How they act? What type of shoes they wear or what religion they have? Maybe it’s the way that they baptize their church people that makes you love them or change your view on them.
Do you look for an excuse not to love someone because of who they are? I tend to do this myself. We all look for a way out, a away that we don’t have to love someone who doesn’t agree with us or doesn’t have the same views as us. When in all reality Jesus didn’t die for some elite group of people and that’s it no he died for the democratic with the poor choices in delegation, for the woman on the street corner who is flagging down cars to have “a good time”, the single mom who goes to church every Sunday with her child who screams during every service. Jesus died for the one who you wouldn’t think of.
The good Samaritan is a good example of all of us. The people who I think would have stopped didn’t and the one that you think that they would keep walking by, did.
You should put no restrictions on how you love people. If Jesus put restrictions of his overflowing love, then he would have never gone to the cross, would have never been beaten, stripped, and was unrecognizable as a man. He would have stayed in heaven and not endured the pain that was necessary for us to be freed of our sins and be in a closer relationship with God.
So, I ask you, Jesus says in the Bible to love your neighbor so, what kind of neighbor are you? And how are you going to change your outlook to a Christ-centered one?
Lately, will you me my neighbor, will you be like Jesus and love the misfits and party with sinners?
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