People are people. If you strip off our clothes, take away all our belongings, un enroll us in all our clubs, ditch all our hobbies, shut down all the places we like to hang out, disperse those that are our friends, close the doors of the religious institutions and organizations we’re a part of, move us far far away from our families, silence our mouths from talking, shut our ears from hearing, take away our sexuality, pull us from our political ideas and people become people. When we stand in the state of Adam being created from the dust with nothing around him to call his own, to define him, to direct him, we stand as people. And God LOVES people. God CARES for people. God FIGHTS for people. God RESCUES people. God FORGIVES people. God HEALS people. God SPEAKS to people. God is PATIENT with people. GOD is/does/desires (INSERT HERE) to PEOPLE. And that is what makes God, GOD.
GOD is for people regardless of clothes they wear, what they own, what crew they roll with, what hobbies they have, what places they hang out in, what friends they have, what institutions they are a part of, what type of family or race they come from, what sexuality they are, what type of words they use, what things they look at, what political party they subscribe to. GOD’s heart ACCEPTS people.
So why cant we?
We try, but our nature gets hung up on being cool or popular or being worthy to fit to be in the life boat. In brief glimpses, we sometimes see people as God sees them, and that is the place that grace happens.
I wonder about this a lot. I try soooo hard to see people just as God sees them, but what is it that gets in the way? I could think of a million things, but none of them makes sense to me. Maybe we need to strip ourselves down to be able to understand what it is to just be people that God loves and love people as God loves. I like this blog Matt, thanks.
@Nichole…Yeah its seems to be Sooooo simple yet its one of the most complicated things in this life! Those brief moments ARE grace, Rich!
And far too rare, at least in my life.
Most of all, I’d like to be more PATIENT with people.