Love

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Of all the things I find upsetting about Christians, I guess one of the biggest is our lack of love.  I wonder why it is such a struggle for so many of us to show love to our neighbor.  If God abides in us, then we should be able to reflect His love to others.  It makes sense.   It should be easy, right?

When you think about it, we must be huge jerks.  I mean, we have been given this great gift of eternal life.  We are part of the family of the Creator.  We have a priceless inheritance and yet we squander it daily.  Only a jerk would take such riches and then not give any of it away.

And it isn’t like this is some earth shattering insight.  I am talking about something that should be pretty foundational and basic to our faith.  Really, we have no excuse for not showing love to those who don’t deserve it  (although I have a million of  ‘em.)  When asked what the greatest commandment was, Jesus didn’t hesitate.  He let us know in no uncertain terms that we are to love God AND people.  We don’t have a choice.  Which kinda sucks.  People are not exactly lovable.  Heck, even a lot of Christians aren’t lovable.

So, today I am going to try and NOT throw God’s gift to me back in His face.  I am going to swallow my pride (thanks, JohnB) and let the Spirit work through me to share the love of God that I have been fortunate enough to experience.