March 5, 2006

Today is something of a weird time-scale thing.

In the first day of getting out there and seeing how God can act, I went shopping with my little sister.

It's weird to watch your siblings grow up. Everyday I'm more impressed with how she's growing up, and I never really noticed it until today, I guess. I also noticed how much she's growing to love Jesus, and watching her spiritual journey is becoming very encouraging to my own.

I also spent a good amount of time with a friend of mine today, an atheist friend of mine. He's taught me, without trying, how important unconditional love is, in the life of a believer. For me to cast him out due to his non-belief would be typical of some of today's believers, but I notice something. He will never come to know God if those who DO know God choose not to love him. He's surprisingly sympathetic to Christians, and like I previously stated, it's the believers that originally drove him from the faith, according to him. The lack of the embodiment of Christ, or in some, the lack of trying.

I think what I'm getting at is, basically, how many people are scared off from God's love because of those that profess God's love? I'm not saying God can't intervene, because I completely believe He can and often does, in all our lives, but I don't understand why some of us, as believers, try harder to alienate non-believers than we do to love them. It honestly makes me hurt, to think that some people might have missed God's love for them, and His grace, because of some of us.

Despite all of this, God's love can move mountains without strain, and His grace can save the worst of us! I have no choice but to be amazed.

What reason have we to worry about the small things when God has taken care of the greatest needs we have?