This whole year has been an election.
Divided yard signs, social media posts, and silent judgements.
President Trump has not conceded to Joe Biden. Accusations of fraud, and cheating.
Jesus sees past “party lines” in the Gospels.
You cannot love someone if you are silently judging them.
Oh yeah, and Jesus also says not to judge others. I believe that is because he knows you cannot love someone if you are standing on some sort of moral superiority.
Dear Christian, you are not morally superior to non-Christians. Without the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus you would remain condemned so do not condemn your neighbor.
Love = openness
A huge issue is our struggle to engage people different from us.
Openness to behold someone else also allows for empathy, compassion, and release of judgement.
Didn’t God give you space to fail and learn to come to him by HIS Spirit’s prompting?
My own blindness this year has been painful
I studied History and Political science in college and loved it.
This past year I have put my foot in my mouth out of complete lack of compassion for others (Black community, the poor, and more)
My blindness came from my own pride of wanting to be right and my inability to be open to others.
Jesus has received us with open arms, no expectations, and his grace reached for us long before we could respond. If we want to be like Jesus we are called to love and ask questions later.
Let the Holy Spirit WORK!!!! People need space, patience, and care. You cannot change people. Praise God.
Jesus invites us into a radical love
We can love the tax collectors, prostitutes, Pharisees, democrats, republicans, fascist, and communists all the same. The world needs us friends.
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God”
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