Another day, another pair of scrubs

            To be fairly honest some days it is hard to love the “least of these.” I'm low on kindness, grace and patience.  The last thing I want to do is put up with someone who happens to be driving me crazy; unlovable seem even more unlovable and love-less. Yet I, too, have those days where I am rather unlovely, my breath stinks, I leave yet another pile of dirty dishes in the sink, I need to put on deodorant and my hair hasn't been washed since who knows when.....But on the worst days we are still daughters and sons of the Holy One.  In my worst hours, I am subject to lay my selfish, arrogant and prideful attitudes before the throne of Grace.

I have to remind myself of the God in Isaiah 6; the one to whom I am subject to. We are subjected to the One to whom all the seraphs bow and to the one before whom Isaiah bows crying "woest me, for I am of unclean lips."

The days when I pray that my heart and attitudes would imitate James 2 showing no partiality, come with blessings. Even if not immediately, eventually, those who were unlovable become friends and I find joy in their presence.  James 1:25 tells us that obedience to the Word of God will come with blessing. It states “But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and preserves, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing" (ESV) (italics added by author).  Today I choose to be an imitator of God, conforming more to the image of the Lord Jesus.