People are Not Easy to Love no. 38

“From that time on, Yeshua began proclaiming, ‘Turn from your sins to God, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near’” (Mattityahu (Mat) 4:17)! Folks always want someone else to change. They may need their neighbor to change or a stranger to change. BUT there is always someone else’s ideas or actions that need to change for folks to get the world they want. And that is the way my life was going for a long time. I had the solution and everyone else needed to figure it all out. That is no way to live and not very Christian. Living a life where everyone else needs to constantly change for you to have the kind of life you want to live, being a victim of the world around you at all times, is not a good idea.

Some folks even want to change God. A lot of biblical stories are all about folks wanting God to change. A lot of our prayers are even asking for God to change. Folks are living a life where they are the victim of God.

Even before I started walking this path with Christ, I could see the truth in biblical teachings. We don’t hurt people. We don’t take their things. We should be charitable. We should love our neighbor. We should help our community. We should help the victimized. We didn’t need any government to do these things. In Galatians Paul lists the gifts of the spirit and how we should act as Christians, “But the fruit of the Spirit [the result of His presence within us] is love [unselfish concern for others], joy, [inner] peace, patience [not the ability to wait, but how we act while waiting], kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control” (5:22-23 AMP). These are outward signs that we are doing and living the way that God intended.

Have you noticed that it is alright to assault the beliefs of Christians? It even seems like a game any more for folks. That is because Christians can have their beliefs assaulted. We can stand the attack because we have the Truth and the Word to support our lives. We have the ability to either live the fruits or discard the fruits. We can live an example that shows that we are Christ’s or we can choose to falter and fall. We can be a beacon to the broken and the depressed and the lost and the hurting and the folks that are looking for help. Or we can be the stereotypical holier than thou church goer. We get to choose how we act and not how others act. We get to choose change.

Grace and Shalom to your home. The Kingdom of God is now!

I love you. I forgive you. Have a blessed and abundant day!

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