Thursday, December 8, 2011

DOING NOTHING.......& LOVE DON'T GO TOGETHER

1 John 3:16
This is how we've come to understand and experience love: Christ sacrificed his life for us. This is why we ought to live sacrificially for our fellow believers, and not just be out for ourselves. If you see some brother or sister in need and have the means to do something about it but turn a cold shoulder and do nothing, what happens to God's love? It disappears. And you made it disappear.
NEWS FLASH!!!!! This isn't John 3:16 but rather it's 1John 3:16, but they share some things in common:
1) They both talk about the demonstrated love of GOD.
2) They both talk about a GREAT sacrifice being made.
3) They both are an addressing of an immediate need.

In the book CRAZY LOVE by Francis Chan, we are challenged chapter after chaper to do something, instead of sitting on our faith.  It's a book built on a call to action regarding the needs & needs of salvation of the world.  How do people at your job experience the Love of GOD, through you?  How do or how have the people in your neighborhood experienced the love of GOD, through you?  Pictured is society (faces blurred) while the homeless is sleeping on the streets they walk....are the blurred faces yours....cause you really DO NOTHING to promote the LOVE OF GOD.  I get it, I've been to Africa...and while my heart aches for their deep need.....I can't forget about the deep needs right here in my own neighborhood, my own city, and even my church. I can't do everything, nor will I try, but I'm called to encourage others to get in this GAME called LIFE, and actually give of THEMSELVES so that we can make sure.......SOMETHING IS DONE, before CHRIST RETURNS and says...WE WERE THE CAUSE for the dissapearance of the LOVE OF GOD in the world!  LGLP

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