Making room for love

I don’t love well. That’s especially true if you are needy or you’re below my social demographic. Regardless of race or creed if I get the slightest inkling that you are going to try to use me then you are probably not going to make it far with me. But then I thought about my relationship with God. How even though we talk pretty often the only time that I truly run to him and NEED him is when I want something. For some reason he still loves me.

How am I taking advantage of God any less then the person in need is “taking advantage of me”. I use quotes because I don’t think everyone who ask for something is trying to take advantage of me it’s just that I perceive it that way. But so what if they are? Why can’t I love them anyway and help them since the Lord has helped me over and over again without question.

Deut. 15:7. If there is a poor man among you, one of your brothers, in any of the towns of the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand to your poor brother; but you shall freely open your hand to him, and generously lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks.

How do you deal with the poor or needy around you?

Posted by on Apr 11, 2011 in Real World Christianity | 0 comments

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