I am amazed how we as Christians (including myself) get caught up in the day to day happenings that surround us. Be it politics who are ruining us with moral decay, drug use and the drug lords that rule our cities, the Hollywood producer who is polluting our culture, or the wars we are fighting, the abortionists, or the whatever bad circumstances that we all find ourselves in, it's all on how much we have retreated from the gospel of grace.
Though were active in our endeavors in combating evil in the many ways that it surfaces in our sphere of influence we tend to use the wrong weapons of these wars. We may find ourselves in the middle of a cultural war but the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh. We are involving ourselves in the wrong war using the wrong weapons. Our war is not against flesh and blood. If we find ourselves fighting against anything made of flesh we are combating the wrong war. Jesus said that there was one distinguishable indelible mark that stood out and showed who we are as Christians and that is the love that we have for one another.
Who then becomes our enemy, is it the drug dealer, the politician, the abortionist, other people in other nations, the man across the street, who is it? Are we so still stuck with the law that we have forgotten about grace? Instead we have traded the gospel of grace for political correctness, moral superiority, and judgment of anything outside the law or our own rules. We have been polarized with the lines we have drawn with our so called enemy on the other side when all we have done is not loved that same enemy that Jesus has taught us to love. If polarization has occurred than we must cross those lines with love in our hearts. That very same grace that has been given to us we need to be reciprocal to others. Most likely the reason why we have not been reciprocal with grace is that we do not understand the love that Jesus has for us and the amazing grace that has been bestowed to our lives.
Eph 6:12
12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
The weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but mighty through God and Jesus Christ our Lord. Thus we fight with love and as 1 Corinthians 13 says that we can do nothing and become anything good without love. No great spiritual awakening, no great miracles, no mighty move of faith, no great spiritual growth, no great benefit of society can happen without love. It will all come to nothing.
When we love is when others will see Jesus love for us, which is true reciprocity.
I Jn 2:9-10
9 He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
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