Hmm... I guess what I want to say in this blog is that I dont want our passion for the Lord and our passion for serving to be a sunday to sunday thing (fill in the weekday of your choice). We were made to love God and serve people! It is woven into our souls to serve, whether we serve healthy things or not is a completely different blog and discussion. I feel like many churches and many groups of people make serving into something that its not, they over-complicate it and add to it clouding the central message they are trying to get across. Love, thats it. Love is something that we never asked for, it was simply given to us for a price that we could have never afforded. Love is something that you dont have to have been schooled in, you dont have to be rich to have, you dont have to be smart to have, and you thankfully dont have to be perfect to have. It is something that answers some of the worlds most dificult questions but is so many times over-looked. Jesus was sent for our ransom because God loves this world and the people on it. John 3:16, everyone knows it but think about it "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life". So how do we make serving a lifestyle and how to we reach people? Do I even need to answer this? Ok I will because I know someone is scratching their head staring at the screen right now waiting for this sentence to end... LOVE!
We do not need to leave the country on a mission trip to reach people. Our neighbors need our help! Unfortunately we only have to look out of our front door to see people hurting. God's love is something that can be seen from the outside and is so contageous! So I challenge myself and everyone reading this to make serving the people that God loves, a lifestyle. You never know how simple it could be to plant that seed in someones heart, and the love shown through you just may be the light that saves that persons life.
"Many waters cannot quench love, many rivers cannot wash it away. If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned." song of songs 8:7 NIV
"Flood waters can't drown love, torrents of rain can't put it out. Love can't be bought, Love can't be sold- it's not to be found in the marketplace." song of songs 8:7 the message
I agree! People make love out to be so complicated and it isn't. It's an amazing gift from God. He wants us to love Him first and then He will Love others through us. It will be that easy! Almost like he is doing it for us! He will even help us love the people who mistreat us! YAY Just today I had a test in this area. It is very hard to love a person that treats you ugly every day but remember He went through HIs worst day so we could go through ours. Isn't that amazing? It confuses us when people make loving God so hard. Shouldn't it be easy to love a God so beautiful? When we love God because we feel like we HAVE to or SHOULD love HIm, instead of genuinely loving out of our true hearts we have forgotten who God really is.
ReplyDeleteGod's love is so amazing that every day I am amazed! I have learned so much about God's love in the past year and I want to know Him more. I want to Love him more and more and let his love pour out of me and have an affect on the people that I come in contact with every day!
I really enjoyed reading your blog! This is a great subject. Last semester at Wren and Sherrys "love" was out topic and I learned So much during that semester.
~Love the Lord your God with ALL your HEART and with ALL your SOUL and with ALL your MIND and love your Neighbor as yourself~