Hello everybody! HAPPY NEW YEAR! (a month late :] ) I haven't posted in awhile. I have quite a few blogs I'd like to write, but I always want to make sure everything I write down comes from the almighty source upstairs, God Himself, before I post. I try not to write rant blogs.
ANYWAYS- the first topic I'd like to cover in this beautiful new year is..Loving others!
I have wrote a blog about something similar to what I am going to write now, but this one will be a little bit more in depth.
If your my friend or acquaintance, you know that I go to Oral Roberts University, a Christian college. I absolutely love it. It's a beautiful campus and the people here are amazing! But, behind all the wonderful smiling faces and spiritual atmosphere, there's a problem.
There are people here that are struggling in there faith and feel fear about showing it.
It is true that most people here love God with their whole hearts. They have a relationship with Him and they truly care about Him.
The problem is, many of us fail to let our inner relationship with Jesus Christ shine through us. We are either blind to those suffering on their walk, or we ignore them and shun them from our lives because they do so called "bad things".
I have heard countless stories about how people have left ORU because they were struggling in their walk, and the people around them criticized, gossiped about them, and even made fun of them for it.
It breaks my heart to hear these stories and to even spot this happening with certain people now.
I think back to the time in my life where I had my back turned against God. He was relentlessly coming after me, He never failed to meet me somewhere in my life. I finally gave in and accepted His gift of salvation, but the change that has happened in me didn't happen overnight. It has been a long journey, and a hard one. I didn't accept Jesus into my heart one night and the next morning wake up and become a super Christian. I fell, over and over. But, I always felt Jesus in my heart pulling me back onto the right path. Jesus still forgives me for continuously falling, and most of the mentors and friends in my life forgive me too.
If Jesus had shunned and not forgiven me because I had fallen , I don't think I would want to keep picking myself up. I would give up and go back to my old ways. There were times when I felt judged by others because I had fallen, and it discouraged me and made me feel depressed and worthless. The Lord and close friends knew my true heart though and saw that I truly desired God.
As Christians, we are not to judge the sins of others, for we ourselves are just as equal of sinners as they are. We should not turn our backs on our brothers and sisters because they are having troubles, if anything, we should be the ones holding out our hands and giving them a helping hand!
We should not be blind to those struggling either. We need to open our eyes and pray that Lord lets us see others through His eyes! God created fellowship so that we can be there for one another, cheering each other on.
We do not have to be best friends with everyone we encounter, some we don't even have to be friends with, but God does not want us to judge anyone at anytime. We can hate the sin, but we must always love the person.
We must always never think of ourselves as higher than someone else, or above them. We are all equal.
So, I challenge everyone who reads this to take a look at your ways. Are you loving others unconditionally no matter their current stance in life, or are you turning your back to those that need encouragement and support the most?
"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?" Matthew 7:3
"Do to others as you would have them do to you." Luke 6:31
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