The fact of the matter is, we’re all lost. We’re looking for a savior and hoping to matter of fact crying out to find one. Those who think they aren’t are only fooling themselves. Most of us are just faking it till we make it.
Some of us know we’re lost a little too well. Some of us are too familiar with being lost that we’ve created personalities, we’ve created other lives to cope. But the best thing the world can do is label us with a medical condition. Ha, aren’t we all medical conditions? Aren’t we all walking around sick? We’re sick with greed, sick with rage, sick with anger, sick with lust, sick with love, sick with doing good deeds, sick with searching for acceptance, for validation. We’re all sick, you know. We’re all weird. We’re all strange. We’re all quirky.
We don’t love as we should because we are yet to be perfected in love. Those who think that they have been should visit 1 Corinthians 13:4 often and meditate on it. Just allow yourself to be convicted because regardless of whether you do or not, trust me, you need it. How many times have you walked down the street feeling like you’ve done so well and something shakes you up? You know those days you have your quiet times with the Lord, you’ve served the needy, you’ve laughed, and you think you love immensely. And then those little things happen in life. See it now? The baby pukes on your shoulder, the cashier short changes you, someone looks at you the wrong way, your alarm doesn’t go off and you’re almost late to work, that barista makes your latte the wrong way, that 70-year-old lady drives too slow on the road, someone talks about you, someone doesn’t keep a promise, someone calls you out on something you’re doing wrong, someone invades your bubble. Ha, I tell you, when the Word says “from the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks,” these are the moments it is speaking about. What comes out when those situations happen? The uttering that flows from your lips is the abundance that rests in the pit of your belly. The murkiness that lies deep that you haven’t allowed God to cleanse. There is no effort in acting kind when everything around you is smooth. Matter of fact, your kindness is useless. If the world was our Utopia, we would not need kindness, we would not need love. Love is kind. That’s what the Word says. The thing about striving to resemble Christ is that he teaches to love in a way that encompasses everything that is good. The Word doesn’t separate these two facts. Love IS kindness. Love IS patience. When you practice kindness, you automatically practice love. And just stop trying to think you can do it by your own strength. Point blank, it’s not going to happen. We need Christ. You’re dying without Him. There is no life abundantly without Him. You just exist.
Sometimes I make myself watch the news because I need to be reminded that the world is falling apart. Just like Brooke Frasier sings, “the innocent fall and the monster still stands.” Yet, we’re so apathetic. I recognize this fact mostly in myself. If it doesn’t touch me, it doesn’t matter. If the injustice women experience in Iran doesn’t touch me, I remain apathetic. If that little girl starving in India doesn’t touch me, I remain apathetic. If the fact that there are millions of persecuted Christians in Sudan doesn’t touch me, I remain apathetic. If the fact that a lonely old woman who desperately needs a friend and lives two miles from me doesn’t touch me, I remain apathetic. We have to recognize that the one thing that bind us together is that we are the human race.
I saw this interview of these two 80-year-old twins who have a soup kitchen. One of the precious ladies talked about the lessons their father taught them.
1. We have one heavenly father.
2. We are all the human race, not matter the race, color, or creed
3. Do not take the last piece of bread from the table because there is someone else out there who needs it more.
I cried the whole time watching that interview and I’m in tears writing this blog because I realize how much I am lacking as a human. God help us because we need to be rescued from ourselves. Let us understand that without Christ, they will never be a change within us. And if we cannot allow someone else to work inside of us, how will we help those around us. Let me tell you, we need each other. No, we are starving for each other. We don’t realize it. The naked truth remains, however, that whether we help one or a million people, if we don’t do it because of the love we have already received from Christ, it will always come back to us. It will be a self-driven deed, which is a recipe for disaster.
“You who mourn will be comforted; you who hunger will hunger no more. Oh, the last shall be first, of this I am sure. You, who weep now, will laugh again. All you lonely be lonely no more. Yes, the last will be first, of this I am sure.”-Brooke Fraser, Flags.
