Thursday, July 11, 2013

Showing the Love of God

We are called to show our love to God to others and we know this by John 13:35 NLT Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples. Jesus us to whole, Jesus calls you to be loving, Jesus calls us to be inclusive and invite all to the table. We experience all that God is in Jesus in his life, ministry, and every day lessons.Truely Jesus is the messiah, our saviour, the Son of God. The mark of Jesus's disciple is to be loving.
         
        Their was a time in my life when I wanted to be a med. doctor however I wasnt able to get into the shop in high school, but someone noticing I was down decided to talk spend the time talking to me making my day better. The little connections we make later can be part of how we witness to others and also shows others God's love. Kind acts of love are something people never forget, that they take with them their whole life.
       
         Sometimes we are called on to show God's love to and respond to those very diffrent from us and it cant strech us like never before. We must love and recieve people as they are such as a leper with an ear falling off and a caved in nose. Remember Jesus was always loving and kind to those who where outcasted by society at large- We must stand by and love those who have been seen as unclean for whatever reason as unclean or in some cases even beyond the Love of God. The thing is nothing is beyond God's love for people and expects us to try and do the same. We must welcome all to God's table and leave some of it up to God to change that person. What we must do is let them know we are their with them on their walk with Christ. We must address who God brings to us.
 
       Jesus didnt want the leper to simply be clean, but also to feel clean as well. Jesus was unafraid to touch and he wanted him to go back and be judged clean so once again he could be apart of his community and to feel loved once again. Jesus desired for the man to be comfortable in his own skin, be able to percieve himself as whole, as a child of the most high and wonderful God. When we touch peoples deepest need and help them it touches their body, mind, soul, and strength. Our witness is that everyone is presish in God's eyes, he wishes none to pairsh (though ultimately some will), and no one and I mean no one is ouside God's loving touch. 
      
      Jesus wants us to have life and have it abudantly. It is a call to life, it is a call to love, it is call to be all you can be made in the image of God. We must spread this abudant life through our love and through the Good News. When we finally learn this is a big portion of the message again, when we realise this once again, the world will begin once again to look at the body of Christ and see and find life, love, and wholeness. For that Folks is what God is all about, and that is what we as disciples of Jesus must also be all about. God Bless.

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