I’d be a hypocrite if I say I love all people at all times, especially in moments when they hurt, disappoint, or discourage me. I am not perfect myself, I get pissed off, lose my temper or say hurtful words out of my emotions. Matthew 22: 36-40 (NLT) tells us about the conversation between an expert of religious law and Jesus. “Teacher, which is the most important commandment in the law of Moses?” Jesus replied, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.”
God’s commandments are really hard to follow right? Do you feel me? Like tell me honestly, can you really say that every day since the day you knew what was right from wrong, that you genuinely loved everyone around you? We say we love God but we gossip about other people, discriminate, or tell lies just to cover up something. Now, those may sound less serious but it’s still all sin. And all are displeasing to God. In short, our good deeds can never equal the bad that we did, would do, and will still do. That’s us, being human.
So, can we really obey God and love people (when they’re unlovable)? The straight answer is yes. But it will be difficult, it will be a process, definitely not on our strength but only by God’s power, and by being humbled and transformed by His saving grace that we can receive by faith in Christ Jesus alone. God’s grace which a gift that none of us deserves, yet He freely gives.
#WeLoveBecauseGodFirstLovedUs
