Today

Here’s what I am thinking about today. I read something this morning that has got me thinking about the words in the Bible. Not the one’s we read but the one’s that are the true Hebrew or Greek words. It’s confusing sometimes to think about it, but in many ways there is a lot lacking in the English language and the way that we read the Bible now. There are many words that mean different things to us, and that we take as literal translation that are not.
For instance the word love in English really only has one meaning, or we only have one use for that word but it means many things. So it’s hard when you read the word love in the Bible to figure out what context it is truly talking about and what all the different meaning could be in another language. It’s confusing, although obviously we aren’t missing the major points for it because God wrote the Bible and therefore even with the difference in words and languages the most important things have to ring true. Which also makes me wonder if we focus on things that are so far from important. Love is a prevailing word in the New Testament specifically, so could it be that the most important thing really is love. That it doesn’t matter what you do, or what you say, at the end of the day we love. I in no way advocate sin, or doing the wrong things. However, we often get caught up in them. We treat other people like what they are doing is more important than loving them. I have found that sometimes people can’t change until they are shown love, real love, and often it’s not a change that you see in one day and in some cases one year.
Growing up going to church and with incredible parents it’s hard for me to imagine anything different. But as I have met and been around people that didn’t have those things, I get a sense of truly being lost. The basic things that I would just see as right or wrong aren’t so clear to someone that was never taught them. They have to change their thinking and actions to something that is incredibly foreign to them. And as I have watched these people and seen the growth there is, although maybe by baby steps, I have found myself thinking how can God not love this person? How could He possibly look at what they have done, and how they have changed and say it’s still not enough? I just can’t believe that that is the God that we serve. I don’t have to condone your sin or something that is wrong in order to love you. And you don’t have to be perfect in order for God to love you and cover your sins.
As someone that has always had those good things it’s a slap in the face to realize that though my wrongs and sins may be a little different they are the same to God. I’m just as wrong and maybe in some ways more wrong because I was unwilling to love someone that needed to be loved because I couldn’t get past their wrongs.
Today please take a deep breath and then a deep look at those around you, co workers,family, friends and remember to love them and help them to know or learn that God loves them and that it’s Him they have to please no one else.

Hold on to God and he’ll save your life. This is a country pop song, but listen you can totally apply it to God. Sometimes we forget that even if things aren’t always put out there in a certain way they can still lead us and help us get closer to God.

Be Blessed!!!

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