Just Love

This week, I have really felt like God is leading me to write this post.  Many people have been pretty shocked to hear that I am willing pack up and move to Haiti for three months.  Yes, it may seem shocking and hard to understand for a non-Christian.  However, I believe that as Christians this shouldn't be quite so shocking.  We are called by God to be servants...to love "the least of these".  God does not care how beautiful and large our church BUILDING is if we the church BODY are empty and lukewarm.  In talking to people about going to Haiti, I've heard many people say, "Well, better you than me.  I'm glad there are people out there who want to do that kind of thing."  That breaks my heart.  Anyone could do what I am planning on doing.  I am nothing special.  I struggle.  I doubt.  I mess up.  But, Jesus hung on a cross and gave up his life to save mine.  My broken and pitiful life is worth THAT MUCH to him. 

So, for me going to Haiti is an easy choice.  This is what I signed up for when I gave my life to Jesus.  All I want to do is serve Him.  That is what we should all want for our lives.  Maybe your calling is not to travel to another country.  What is important is that you listen and obey His calling for your life.  God has HUGE plans for all of us.  I read a quote from Louie Giglio, "I hope my dreams don't come true simply because they were too small to begin with."  Personally, I couldn't be more thankful that my "dreams" didn't come true.  They were nothing compared to what God has planned for my life.  So, stop dreaming and watching other people serve God.  Just go do it!  It's not hard, and you don't have to travel to the ends of the earth.  Just love others.  Plain and simple.  Show others Jesus by showing them love in ANY situation.  Whether they are friends or enemies...just show them unconditional and uncomplicated love.

1 Corinthians 13

 ¹ If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. ² If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. ³ If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it;^[a] but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.
 ⁴ Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud ⁵ or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. ⁶ It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. ⁷ Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
 ⁸ Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages^[b] and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever! ⁹ Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! ¹⁰ But when full understanding comes, these partial things will become useless.
 ¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. ¹² Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.^[c] All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.
 ¹³ Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.