Be Jesus

Truly I tell you, whatever you did for the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me." Matthew 25:40

"The least of these...."

We are so comfortable as Christians. We get dressed up, go to church, worship God a little bit, go out to lunch, then head home. I'm guilty of this a lot of the time. We maintain such a routine and we don't want anyone or anything to disrupt it.  We are so self-absorbed.

Jesus didn't call us to be comfortable. He called us to get dirty. He wants us in the middle of all the hurt and the pain in this world. He wants us to leave our routine and follow Him (Matthew 19:21).

It is our responsibility as followers of Christ to love the unlovable (Matthew 5:46) and to go out and make disciples (Matthew 28:19).  Jesus wants us to hang out with "sinners" just like He did (Matthew 9:11). After all, we were sinners (Romans 5:6) and He loved us anyway.

Sometimes being a Christian looks ugly. We have to reach down into the slimy pit and help pull people out. We have to sacrifice the things we want to give to people who need.  Love is sitting with a drug addict when they go through withdrawals or cleaning a widow's gutters. It's babysitting for a single mother while she looks for a job or  paying for a child to go to camp when they can't afford it.
Love is selfless and it's sacrificial.

Money doesn't matter.
Religion doesn't matter.
Social status doesn't matter.
Love matters.

We are the body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:27), let's start acting like it.