Love for Fellow Man

Today marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

The complete disregard for human life was astonishing and sickening.
Today we remember 11 million innocent people who lost their lives because of the evil that swept through Germany.

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 As followers of Christ we are commanded to love one another.
However, I feel we as Americans, have lost the compassion for our fellow brothers and sisters. Instead we protect the liars and fakes, we exalt the immoral and unrighteous and we encourage what continues to corrupt our families. We are giving into the same sins that ultimately lead to the happenings at Auschwitz.

You may think that our sins of immorality pale in comparison to what took place during the Holocaust.
Rev. Billy Graham stated,
"It is always difficult and dangerous to attempt to list sins according to their degree of seriousness. In one sense, all sins are equal in that they all separate us from God. The Bible’s statement, “For the wages of sin is death …” (Romans 6:23), applies to all sin, whether in thought, word, or deed.

At the same time, it seems obvious that some sins are worse than others in both motivation and effects, and should be judged accordingly. Stealing a loaf of bread is vastly different than exterminating a million people. Sins may also differ at their root." Quote Credit

So you may have not killed millions of people, but the root of your sin is still evil. In 1 John 3:15-16 it says, "Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers" (ESV)
Your thoughts and your intentions of hate are considered murder in the eyes of God.

I'm calling for this nation, our churches, our families to rethink morality vs. political correctness. Do we want to ride the fence and let evil continue to speak over our lives in order to preserve our comfort zones? Or are we made for something more?

Last time I checked, I was made to break boundaries, speak truth, ignite passion, inspire change and reinvent what it means to humbly serve a Risen Savior.

Colossians 3:12-15 says, "Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful." (ESV)

Put on love. Exalt forgiveness and offer it freely. Encourage morality and whose who humbly follow and seek after God's Word.

We were made for more than what we're being.
Be more!