Love one another....

I know, this sounds like something you know already...your momma already told you long ago or your sunday school teacher told you... "be kind to others, treat people the way you want to be treated, if you can't something nice, don't say nothing at all"... stuff like that.

I was reading in my borrowed book from my son-in-law Craig last night.."Blue Like Jazz" which I've been reading since the end of December a little at a time. I'm almost done Craig, I promise you'll get your book back. It's a deep book, sometimes a little out there, but last night I read about love & relationships and I thought to myself...THIS IS IT!!! Just like the author, I've been talking to myself about Christianity and how it can turn people off. Christians don't mean to do it, but we do...I include myself in the WE. Even preachers and preachers family members do it. I've heard it. AAAGGGHHH.... it makes me angry at WE. It makes me want to go out and apologize to people for the way WE treat people.

Don't understand what I'm writing about? I'm talking about how we USE our gift of love for others. As Christians the bible teaches us to love like Christ. We can't truly do that unless Christ is truly living in us. Stay with me here.

The author stated we use love as a comodity. If you be nice to me, or do something nice for me, then I'll give you "love" back. DID YOU HEAR ME? We only pay back good with love when we really should pay back "you're bad" or "you get on my nerves" or "you dress & smell bad" or "you're not like me" (fill in the blanks with what we don't like in people)... we should show love to all these scenarios... not just to the people who are kind to us, do nice things for us, show us love.

Doesn't that want to make you take a good hard look at yourself and ask yourself "Am I trying to love like Christ, or doing my own thing"? This includes people who YOU consider sinners...the people YOU look down on. Remember that when we point our finger at somebody we are pointing to ourselves too. Even on our best days as a Christian we are still sinners.

Something to ponder today... the day before we get up and take our selves, our children to church...and pretend.

Hmmm....I'm getting on my knees right now and asking for forgiveness, thanking God He does forgive and asking the Holy Spirit to truly change my heart to love like our Savior.
Time to ReAlign in '09....as my husband says.

Peace to all...and much LOVE!!