Calling All Saints part 3
We're not called to fit into a box. We're called to live. And since living and loving are the same thing, we're called to love. But that's where it gets interesting. Because everybody gives and receives love in their own unique way. Things that make me happy might not make you happy. So it's important to love wisely. And it's important to understand that you can't please everybody. Sometimes your best efforts fall on deaf ears. And that's ok. It's not your responsibility to make sure people react the way you want them to. It's your responsibility to love people no matter how they respond. I always hear about this debt that we owed God. And I always wonder about that. Because the only debt I can find is in Romans 13:8, "Owe no man anything, but to love one another, for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law." We don't owe anybody anything except love. Because that's why we're here--to be loved by God and to love one another with that same love. That's the New Commandment. That's the perfect law of liberty. And that's our calling! That's why we were created. We are God's love letter to the world. His expression of love is when WE love one another. That's when the Word (Jesus, love) is made flesh. That's when we are most alive, and that's when we are most ourselves. Our TRUE selves. Jesus. God in the flesh. Love in a body. God in OUR flesh. Love in OUR body. That's what we are called to do. Not to fit in a box. That's not liberty. Not to try to be someone we're not. But to embrace who we are. To embrace one another. To be loved, and to love. It really is that simple. The simplicity of Christ... is love. When we get rid of everything else--which is what Jesus did on the cross when He remade the world in His image--we are left with what's real. Left with love. So to lead a life worthy of our calling is to lead a life of love. Love IS our calling. And it's not just what we do... it's who we are!