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As I stand here in
the middle of the flying Facebook posts, I know only one thing for sure:
God is love.
When God came to live among us in human form, he asked us to do just two
things for him:
Love him with all our
heart, soul, and mind, and love our neighbors as ourselves.
(That’s in the Gospel
according to Matthew 22: 37-39).
Jesus didn’t tell us who to have sex with, or
who to marry.
He didn’t ask for our help
in deciding who gets to go to heaven.
He
asked us to love—to love him and to love other people.
How do we build the Kingdom of God? Through love.
How do we share our faith and our heart for God? Through love.
How do we draw people into the family of God?
Through love.
How do we obey God and
live according to His Will? Through
love.
God will forgive us, and He can
redeem and work His good through our mistakes.
But it’s hard for me to understand why faithful Christians overlook God’s
greatest commandment
(Jesus himself calls it “the greatest commandment”!)
to
focus their energies on condemning children of God they cannot understand and
do not approve.
Let us love one another,
for love comes from God.
Everyone who
loves has been born of God and knows God.
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
(That’s in
1 John 4: 7-8.)
Perhaps you could ask yourself before posting that next
diatribe of personal insults against our President, or that photo of a church
sign that condemns the new Supreme Court ruling concerning marriage, or that
snarky comment about the person in line ahead of you at the grocery store
(guilty!), if your post reflects God’s love.
With just a little forethought and good judgment,
we can save Him a lot of work trying to redeem our
hatefulness.
