Die to who…?

I came across a revelation the other day about loving people who will NEVER love you back. Sometimes we think that we don’t have to love those who will never love us, But is that what Jesus did when He DIED for everyone on a cross bloody and beaten? No, He said, “Father forgive them for they know not what they do…” UM WOW!! Even when the scoffers and mockers were spitting on Him and hitting Him, He still begged for God to grant them Grace. That my friends is love, He died for those who were speaking horrible things about Him and to Him. He died to Himself and to His own desires in order for us sinner/dirty people to be saved. Isn’t it OUR job to love like Jesus, to die to ourselves and be servants to the world in order to show them Jesus? WE are called to Love the unlovely and the unlovable because Jesus loved them first… who are we to pick and choose who should come with us to Heaven? I am sorry, just because someone irritates you doesn’t mean they don’t get to go to Heaven. 😛 that my friend is not how is to work. God desires everyone of us to go to heaven with Him and to spend an eternity walking riiiiiiiight next to him in the most intimate way imaginable (that we can’t even imagine in our little tiny not God brains). Don’t think just for one second that you can’t love the unlovely. you can! It is hard sometimes, I worked with prostitues on the streets, the Johns (guys who buy the girls) are sometimes the LAST people on the planet you want to love, but its not our jobs to say no to loving even the most painful kinda people to love… it’s our job to say YES to decide TO love them regardless of their sin. Die to yourself and love the hardest to love, it hurts, but man when you see that person in Heaven… You will realize why it was all so worth it.

“Never will you look more like your Father in Heaven, Than when you love the unlovely!” ~Beth Moore