I have been thinking about something for quite some time now. If we love Christ as much as we proclaim we do. If we love Christ as much as we say we do at church and as much as we do when we are in our Bible studies, how can we keep that love to ourselves? I have a hard time understanding how we can sit around not sharing the love of God with everyone around us. I have had a burden (for lack of a better word) since I was a freshman in college, to let everyone I come in contact with know that I love Christ. To let them know that there is “something different” about me, and if they want to talk about it, I am always here for them. However, that is not always the case, is it? I hide my faith sometimes, and minutes later I am beating myself up. We hide from telling people about Christ, but why do you hide? We hide because we are afraid. We are afraid to share the love that God has given us. The love that Christ gave when he come down from heaven as a baby and then died on the cross as a man for sins that He never committed. Doesn't it now seem silly, in reflection? That we cannot even tell people that Jesus loves them, that the God of the universe knows their names and genuinely cares for them, because we are afraid of what they will think?
Jesus laid is out very clearly in Matthew 28. He told us, “16 The eleven disciples went to the hill in Galilee where Jesus had told them to go.17 When they saw him, they worshiped him, even though some of them doubted.18 Jesus drew near and said to them, I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth.19 Go, then, to all peoples everywhere and make them my disciples: baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,20and teach them to obey everything I have commanded you. And I will be with you always, to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28: 16-20 GNT). He clearly tells us to go out into the entire world and tell everyone that Jesus loves them, that Jesus loves me.
So again, it is all about that eternal perspective. This life is not all we have been promised, this earth is not all we have been promised. Heaven, heaven is what we have been promised. We have to remember that some pain and discomfort here has been promised. That people making fun of us, or writing us off for what we believe will happen. But Jesus has sent us to tell and to love, not to be afraid. And that we must remember.
He’s already there.
