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.
