"LOVE OF GOD!"

Matthew 5:43-48                (ESV)
"43 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'
44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
47 And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
48 You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect."


I often wonder why GOD doesn't put all of the liberal minded thinking people into one section of the country, and put the one's who endeavor to live lives that glorify HIM in a place where we can be free from the unholy lifestyles?  I think I would enjoy being around people who  lived life the way GOD's Word instructed.  But, would the love you have for them be as complete as the love we are commanded to have for our enemies?

JESUS said that we must love ALL, for GOD in Heaven is love.  If JESUS lives in my body (2 Corinthians 13:5), why is it so hard for me to LOVE?  Could it be that I see the "Acts of People", rather than the hearts of people?  GOD knows our hearts and our intentions (Jeremiah 17:10).  Maybe HE has placed us where we are, around whom we are around, for HIS plan and HIS purpose (Ephesians 2:10)?  Maybe GOD has placed us around the wicked to be a light in a dark world?

I am far from what I need to be.  But GOD continues to mold and make me into a vessel that HE can use for HIS purpose.  I praise HIS name that HE has shown such patience and long-suffering in my life.  While I shouldn't be acceptive of their actions, I should be aware that all need to experience the "LOVE OF GOD"!  And GOD may be using me to show that LOVE!!!