What classifies someone as a good Christian? Is it praying everyday? Is it following all the commandments? Is it never sinning?
This journey is something that has honestly taught me a lot about this topic. But just because I’m traveling and spreading the love of Jesus does not mean that I’m a better Christian than a new baby Christian who “sins” here and there. It’s easy to love kind people who love you first, but it’s the people we don’t typically hang out with, or who don’t reciprocate our kindness, who are more difficult to love. But the Lord calls us to love all his children. To overlook the “unlovable” is a sin of its own. The concept that there is one and only judge, the Lord almighty, is something I feel so many Christians forget. It’s easy to sit back and judge people based on our own perceptions as to what is right and what is wrong. I always ask myself why I extend my own judgment upon one of God‘s children when all of us should only be judged by God. What makes me holier than them or what makes it okay for me to judge my peers and how they live their lives? It’s hard to swallow my pride and just say we are all equal people.
Knowing that all of creation is under the will of God is what brings us back to being strong enough to love everyone. Sure it is so easy to say our personalities just don’t mesh well, but that’s just a way of running away from the problems you might have with that person. God challenges us everyday to be uncomfortable in our daily lives and to stretch faith. He calls us to be his disciples and so we must ask ourselves if we are living up to our calling by not loving others through his grace.
I challenge you to not overlook people who you deem as hard to love and gain a new perspective. Give it all to the Lord, cover that person in prayer, and love on them to the best of your ability, because you truthfully never know what is going on inside of a persons head or what they’re going through.
I challenge you to love one another as Christ loved us.
