Unto the Least of these.

We would like to think we are important, and in a huge way we are. There are times in our lives when we forget the reason why we were put here. The answer is love. Love can come in all shapes and sizes, it can come in the form of human love, love for a song or love for a pastime. But the greatest of all human experiences of love is when we give our lives for another human being. Being romantic and such is good in a marriage and so forth, but as human being we can only show love when we have received the fullness of love itself and that means we need to repent. We are created in the image of God and as such we reflect the Glory of God to one another. It is when we see beyond the outer shell which we call a body and see with spiritual eyes as God sees that we can show and recognise the value and importance of another human being. We have all been there, hungry, frozen, broken and ashamed and so has our Father been there with us, in the form of a human being he felt shame, he felt hunger and Jesus felt cold. Jesus took our shame, he took our hunger and placed in each and every human being a longing, a universal desire to know God through his son. I have felt this longing, I have felt alone, I have felt scared and I want you to know that you are not alone. God came in the form of a human to this earth and died on a cross, so we wouldn't have to feel the separation and the shame of rejecting Him. He died so we could have life, and he died so we could be forgiven.

He calls every human being who has breath to turn away from selfishness and sin and invites us all to receive the gift that His son died for us to have. The shame you feel because you think you have to earn God's love is a lie. We don't deserve any thing from God, but he asks us to surrender our hearts to what Christ did for you on the cross. He asks you to believe it with your whole heart and ask for his forgiveness. He asks that you would repent and change your mind about who God is. God says Jesus is Lord and he asks you to confess that. (Romans 10:9) and he wants you to believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead. (Romans 10:9) and he promised if you would do those things you would be saved. God is love and he loves you.

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