God has just been speaking so much to me and convicting my heart about loving people as He loves them and loves me. Not just any person but everyone. I just got done reading the book "Irresistible Revolution" by Shane Claiborne and he challenges you to be an -ordinary radical-. It's a story about a man who goes into the ghettos of Philly and extends his love to outcasts and a broken world. It all starts with little acts of love and living out the authentic Christian faith.
It's so disturbing how unbelievers view "christians" and the "church". It makes me want to change the world with Christ's radical love. When we look through the eyes of Jesus, we see new things in people and when we come to the realization that we ourselves are wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way. A quote that I cannot get out my head is "When we have new eyes, we can look into the eyes of those we don't even like and see the One we love." Even though someone may have offended you, hurt you, might not be your type we must see them as Jesus does. They are also a human created in the image of God that he loves. We are created from the same dust, cry the same tears, and we are called to love with no conditions.
We live in an age when people hear the word Christian they are much more likely to think of people who hate gays than people who love outcasts. It's so sad to see people rejecting God because of the mess they see in the church. In the early church a lot of good things started small and got smaller. It's easy to fall in love with great things such as our revolution or mission and forget the little things like caring for others around us. Mother Theresa quoted, "We can not do great things, only small things with great love; it's not how much you do but how much love you put into doing it." God's working in my heart to know Him as He is to be known and to go deeper; love Him and love people.
"And He said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, al your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the great and foremost commandment. the second is like it, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself'". -Matthew 22:37-38
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