While pondering on last week's Saturday Sunshyne, I began to wonder about what it is exactly that fools us, as Christians, into believing that we're giving others Christ's love, when we're really not. I thought you'd like to know that I came to a conclusion.
I realized that we believe that loving someone by actions is loving. For example, we make ourselves think that giving somebody a hug is giving them love, but it isn't. That is, it isn't giving them love unless it's a genuine, Christ-filled hug. We can't just show actions of love and expect to get away with it. We have to backup our actions with Christ's love. We can't hug someone and say "Ew! Gross!" to ourselves because then we're lying to ourselves that that's what Christ's love is.
So, you're telling me that Christ's love can be defined in a hug? You're telling me that by giving someone a hug that you're giving them all you got? I don't think so. I think that we've got it all wrong here. God's love is so great that it cannot be defined. You cannot give someone a hug while thinking it's gross and expect to believe that you're actually giving someone a genuine, Christ-filled hug.
We're so stuck on this idea that God's love can be defined in actions. God is love, and God himself is greater than anything imaginable. Yet, we still believe that we can define God's love in a hug? No, we can never define God's love with actions, or with anything. God's love is so big that it cannot be defined, but that doesn't mean that the undefinable amount of Christ's love that lives in us cannot get out. God gave us his love to give to others, God did not give us his love so that we might keep it for ourselves.
Luke 6:36 says,"You must be compassionate, just as your Father is compassionate."(NLT). I believe the key word here is "must". "You must be compassionate as your father it compassionate.". We think we have a choice in the matter, but we don't. We must love others as God loves us. John 15:12 states it even clearer, "This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you."(NLT). What did he say, again? Yea, that's right, that's his commandment to us. Remember last week with Jesus and the leper? Remember how Jesus touched the leper? That's what this verse is telling us to do. We need to stop shying away from people because they're "gross" to hug. God gave us like three jobs, and we're just like,"It's no big deal, I'll just trick everyone into thinking that I love everyone with actions.", and then you get so used to hoarding God's love for yourself that you forget what it's like to love people with God's love.
Don't get me wrong, actions of love are important, but they only mean something if they are backed up by genuineness. Kind of how money isn't really worth anything unless it's backed up by gold. This world truly needs more actions of genuine, Christ-filled love. When you think it's hard to love others the way that God loves us, remember that God sees our wrongs better than anyone else, but he loves us the most. He is the ultimate example of how we should love others, we can't just toss that opportunity, to love others as he does, out the window for selfish reasons.
In conclusion: Nobody is ever "gross" to hug, and God's love is undefinable. Realize these things for the better of the world...please?
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