Sunday, August 16, 2009

What Are You Going To Do?


Sometimes we can be so busy and wrapped in our own lives and the problems that we have and we don't see the hurting people around us. I know myself as a single mom that I have days that are stressful and not sure how I am going to get through that day. I find myself not paying attention to things around me because I get selfish and caught up in my own lil world that I don't see the hurt around me. My daughter said something in the car today that made me think to what pastor has been talking about. She saw a man holding a sign at the side of the road and he was in not so nice looking clothes and trying to get someone to help him. This is how the conversation went between my two daughters: Olivia: Natalie if that guy is homeless how was he able to make that sign? Natalie: I don't know maybe he borrowed a pen from someone and dug the cardboard out of the trash. Olivia: No Natalie how did he get the pen to write that on there. Natalie: He probably borrowed it from someone. Olivia: Ewww I wouldn't give him a pen hes homeless. Natalie: Why its just a pen why wouldn't you give it to him? Olivia: Because hes homeless and a bad person. Natalie: Just because hes homeless doesn't make him a bad person it just means he doesn't have a place to live. Olivia: Oh ok.

I was appalled at my own child's reaction but in society today people who are homeless, drug addicts, alcoholics, murderers,etc..are looked upon as dirty filthy and we are not to have anything to do with them. Is that how we are going to react when our church aisles are filled with prostitutes who may still dress like a prostitute. What are you going to do when one sits by you and your husband. Are you going to give them the cold and unloving hello and make a face at them or are you going to show the love of Jesus to them and greet them like you would one of your own family members? What if a homeless person comes and sits next to you and they smell like they have layed in garbage for days. Are you going to get up and move or are you going to extend the love that was extended to you when you walked in the church doors? What are you going to do when someone who is drugged up and liquored up sits next to you and they cant even keep themselves sat up straight in a chair and they happen to lean over on you a little bit? Are you going to help them sit up and extend the love acceptance and forgiveness our church is about or are you going to get up and move and sit somewhere else. What is it your going to do when no matter where you turn you see people of those kinds sitting everywhere in our church? You were once lost just as they are and needed the love of Jesus. Get ready church because a day is coming when our church is going to be filled with people such as that and we have to be ready to love and accept them as they are and show them that Jesus can forgive them and wants to make them a new person and that he loves them and wants to wrap his arms around them. GET READY its coming and what are you going to do?

Walking Thru The Fire So He Can Break Me Down To Mold Me Into His Image.

Walking Thru The Fire So He Can Break Me Down To Mold Me Into His Image.
Live Life With No Regrets, Laugh Til It Hurts, Love Unconditionally