I think we have lost our love. Ye who call yourself a Christian, do you truly live as one?

Just in Singapore, turn round the corner and you'll prolly meet a Christian here or there. There's so many Christians everywhere. Isn't that something to rejoice? Perhaps, but I mourn for you all. So many of us who claim ourselves as Christians live a life that is just so contradictory to what we speak. We speak vulgarities, we gossip, we look at others with disdain. But really, where is the love.

If I may just get right to the point, Christians these day, I would like to put the estimates to 95% (that includes me) have totally forgot what it means to be a Christian. Yes we still pray, we still sing praise songs, we spread the Word, but HELLLOOOOO, YOU GUYS ARE TOTALLY FORGETTING ONE MAJOR IMPORTANT COMPONENT THAT BASICALLY SEPARATES US FROM WHO WE CLAIM OUR FAITH TO BE. WHERE IS THE LOVE OF CHRIST IN YOU ALL?

Do we go the extra mile to help one another? to we go out of our comfort zone to care for the hurting, or do we just look at others in dissappointment and talk about how bad they are. What would Jesus do? He'll feel the pain, that these people are "lost" and not going down the right path. A brother's that is doing something wrong; do we look at him in disgust, shun him, or talk bad about him? Or do we go unto our knees in prayer, in heartfelt care and LOVE for him, that he may refrain from doing things that hurt God's heart. We live in such a comfortable world, that we become so selfish, we cease to love others the way God does, and rather, love them the way men does. If you're lovable, I'll love you, if you're bad, irritating, stupid, or something no one would like, then hell why should I love you too?

Matthew 5:43-48

⁴³ “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ ⁴⁴ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, ⁴⁵ that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. ⁴⁶ For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? ⁴⁷ And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? ⁴⁸ Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Luke 6:33-35

³³And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' do that. ³⁴And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' lend to 'sinners,' expecting to be repaid in full. ³⁵But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

So yea, what difference are we to the world if we only love those who love us, for everyone does it as well. But just as God loved us freely, regardless of who we are, should we not also do the same?

You know, I really don't know how to put this across, but in short, we Christians ought to be ashamed of ourselves. Are we merely Christians in name, or true living people of faith that are Christ-like in mind and body. My heart bleeds for all of us. Where has the love gone?

Labels: God, heart

I think we have lost our love. Ye who call yourself a Christian, do you truly live as one?

Just in Singapore, turn round the corner and you'll prolly meet a Christian here or there. There's so many Christians everywhere. Isn't that something to rejoice? Perhaps, but I mourn for you all. So many of us who claim ourselves as Christians live a life that is just so contradictory to what we speak. We speak vulgarities, we gossip, we look at others with disdain. But really, where is the love.

If I may just get right to the point, Christians these day, I would like to put the estimates to 95% (that includes me) have totally forgot what it means to be a Christian. Yes we still pray, we still sing praise songs, we spread the Word, but HELLLOOOOO, YOU GUYS ARE TOTALLY FORGETTING ONE MAJOR IMPORTANT COMPONENT THAT BASICALLY SEPARATES US FROM WHO WE CLAIM OUR FAITH TO BE. WHERE IS THE LOVE OF CHRIST IN YOU ALL?

Do we go the extra mile to help one another? to we go out of our comfort zone to care for the hurting, or do we just look at others in dissappointment and talk about how bad they are. What would Jesus do? He'll feel the pain, that these people are "lost" and not going down the right path. A brother's that is doing something wrong; do we look at him in disgust, shun him, or talk bad about him? Or do we go unto our knees in prayer, in heartfelt care and LOVE for him, that he may refrain from doing things that hurt God's heart. We live in such a comfortable world, that we become so selfish, we cease to love others the way God does, and rather, love them the way men does. If you're lovable, I'll love you, if you're bad, irritating, stupid, or something no one would like, then hell why should I love you too?

Matthew 5:43-48

⁴³ “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ ⁴⁴ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, ⁴⁵ that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. ⁴⁶ For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? ⁴⁷ And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? ⁴⁸ Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Luke 6:33-35

³³And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' do that. ³⁴And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' lend to 'sinners,' expecting to be repaid in full. ³⁵But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

So yea, what difference are we to the world if we only love those who love us, for everyone does it as well. But just as God loved us freely, regardless of who we are, should we not also do the same?

You know, I really don't know how to put this across, but in short, we Christians ought to be ashamed of ourselves. Are we merely Christians in name, or true living people of faith that are Christ-like in mind and body. My heart bleeds for all of us. Where has the love gone?

Labels: God, heart