Can’t we love the same?

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. (1 John 4:7 NIV)

We can’t love or even sympathize with people unless we understand them, and we can’t truly understand them without putting ourselves in their place or trying to see things from their perspective.

God created people to be different, and He loves them all. His great love and grace reach out to all of His creations.

Somebody said, “God spreads grace like a four-year-old spreads peanut butter. He gets it all over everything.”

God didn’t make some people who He loved less and others who He loved more. He doesn’t love people with a certain color of skin any more than He loves people with another color of skin.

If we show a prejudicial, belittling, demeaning spirit toward others, it must hurt Him very much.

We are supposed to love all people with His love. Jesus gave His life for all humankind. He has shown the very greatest love possible by dying for every person.

That’s how God loves. Can’t we love the same? [1]

 The greatest resistance to overcome is this: the idea that God is like us, while he invites us to become like him. - Fratel Michael Davide

[1] Anchor Untold Value