A few days ago God convicted me of something big. Something at the time that was small to me, but big to Him as all sin is. In my selfish desires I find it easy to blow people off and sometimes even my friends when it comes to certain issues or things they are interested in that I’m not. Sometimes I even blow people off who just want to be around me. Well the other day after hearing Brian Cosby teach on true repentance and radical love I was immediately convicted realizing how much of an impact my life has on my peers and younger kids looking to me as a leader. Usually I find the easiest way out in a situation I’m uncomfortable with is to ignore the person or the true problem. Sometimes to the point when I become a coward for not speaking about the issue or confronting the person. That night I felt the Holy Spirit move in me a direction that I am uncomfortable with; giving others face time even when I feel they don’t deserve it. Jesus gave me a visualization of what that looks like and how grotesquely wrong I am for rejecting people over the small things. I was reminded of the fact that Jesus loves me all the time and is willing and wants to speak to me in His throne room every single moment of my life, however, I don’t. I even blow Him off by consciously sinning against him. Yet he still loves me and isn’t angered by my foolishness, rather he responds to me in love. That is a love that I will never fully understand, but a love I know that is always with me, a radical love. So I write this challenged by God to set an example and to remember the love He shows me even when I don’t deserve it.
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