Compliment

Some days things just line up. No matter how rough your day, your week, or your last few years has seemed, sometimes it only takes the right word from a friend to make it ok. I have learned you need to surround yourself with people who will tell you the hard truths because those people will also be willing to tell you what you need to hear even if you aren’t sure what it is you need.

As a Christian we are trying to live like Jesus. We will fall short, we will become weak, we will sin, but we will try to be a better person everyday. Today I went to Love on the city with some guys from my church. We went to laundromats in the area and passed out laundry soap, dryer sheets, and quarters. We had conversations about life, about church, and about God. As small as this gesture seemed to us to some of these people it is the only love they see from “Church” people.

Events like this are one of the things I enjoy the most about my church. We are called as part of the church to go out into the community and to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ. We are the body of Christ on this earth and we should long to bring heaven to Earth. Sometimes you are the only Jesus people see, I have taken that statement to heart.

What do I need most from Jesus? The unfailing, unconditional Love that he showed us when he left his throne and came to Earth to die for our sins. So if this is what I need the most why would I not go out and show Love as often as I could, to people who aren’t necessarily like me, who may be considered less than by some standards, but are God’s creations just as I am?

With all of that said I have to get to what brought this post about. As I was talking to one of my friends I was told “if I was asked what stood out most about you I would say Love.” That was one of the biggest compliments I have ever received. I was told that if I died today he would tell people about how much I loved, he would tell about my heart. Out of all of the wrong I’ve done, all the times I fall short, all of the mistakes I have made, my heart would be the thing he most remembered.

What will you be remembered for? God Loves you, why not share that Love with people who have never experienced it?

I love y’all.