God's Love

God is Love, God created Love, and God teaches Love.

I posted how I read Crazy Love, and since I finished this phenomenal book, there have been many ways God has shown me how He loves and how the world loves. They are very different. The way I see it the most though is when people who say they are Christians and are followers of the same God and Jesus Christ that I am , use this "relationship" to belittle and hurt others! This is not what God says to do at all!

My first thing is this: Judgment is GOD'S JOB! NOT YOURS!
* God teaches us this: "For we mus all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil." (2 Corinthians 5:10) This means that no matter how angry we get or how wrong we think someone is for whatever they do or say, it is not our place to judge them for it. Yes, hold them accountable; go to them and tell them that they need to check themselves against the Holy word of God, and let it go at that. You are not told to preach at them or to ask God to smite them, or to go out and gossip about them and tell everyone you can what an awful and sinful person they are! It's not about you, so get over it and move on!

Second point: Love THEM!
*This is what God says about Love: "this is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue, but with actions and in truth. This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence whenever our hearts condemn us. " (1 John 3:16-20) Here's how I feel about loving each other: every person on this Earth is here because God has a plan for them, and if they come in contact with you your job is to show them God's love and His word and Saving Grace. You are not to show them how wrong they are and make them feel bad and then when they find out you are a follower of God they say they don't need that God, He is no different than any of the other people and things they have encountered in this hard world. How would you feel if you get to heaven and God asks you why you treated all the people that He loved so much SO BADLY? How will you answer Him?

Third Point: FORGIVE and FORGET!
*Colossians 3:13 "Forgive just as the Lord forgave YOU" (emphasis mine)It is not much simpler than this, when the Lord forgives us He puts it as far as the East is from the West, and it is gone forever. Never to be pulled up again, never to be brought up again. Christ died on the Cross for our sins and paid the ultimate price for our forgiveness. We are not Holy enough to do this, so leave the grudges behind and move on, sincerely forgive someone for whatever they have done to YOU (this is all that matters, if it wasn't done to you, then you shouldn't care at all) and forget about it and move on with life and your relationship with that person.

This is easier said than done, but a lot of people out there are saying that we need to hold grudges until we feel like it is over. They are saying we need to have vengeance and if we aren't going to get it ourselves we need to pray to God to smite that person down. God says not to do this, and His word is the ultimate one. He gives us life, each breath we breathe is GIFT FROM GOD, so don't you think we should be living by what He says and not what society or some backward mixed up "preacher" says?!