There is an aspect of seeing that we can miss at times, even if we have eyes to see everything around us. We can in our casualness become unseeing and dismissive of people around us. It happens when we are consumed with our own busy lives, schedules, and our thoughts about ourselves. We see others, but then again, we don’t see them somehow. We were headed somewhere or had something to do and we couldn’t be bothered.
Sometimes we even see them and we avoid them for whatever reason. In the latter sense, we border on sin, because we choose who we care about and who we are interested in. As Christians we allow this unseeing to happen to us and it really shouldn’t if we are being sensitive to the Holy Spirit. If we have the love of Christ in us, we should allow the love of God to flow through us without determining who is worthy to be loved. God loves the world and everyone in it and He loves us each one of us without partiality (Romans 2:11). Are we not to be imitators and people who give out the great love of God?
Here is the issue, we think we love God with deep devotion and with sacrificial commitment. Thus, we expect to see God in our midst. We assume that He will be involved with us. We expect His blessing because we feel we love Him. We think we love Him with all our heart, soul, and mind but yet we do not love those around us with the same devotion and definitely not as Jesus asks us to love. Jesus hangs the whole “Law and Prophets” on this proverbial theological hook of what faith is and should be. The righteousness of our faith at times might seem easy to fake and fawning the love of others can be acted out as if in a play but God knows whether devotion is real or contrived and other people do as well.
We must realize, God sees all … we will then see our commitment to Him cannot be anything but real in our love for Him or how we love others. God’s love for others is not different in any way from His love for us, yet we just don’t see it. God sees with soul-searching and soul-evaluating eyes, we need to realize the depth of that assessment as we assess ourselves. Do we see others as God sees them? Do we see our love for others, as God sees, how we love others?
And the second is like unto it: ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself’ (Matthew 22:29, KJ21)
Connecting with Christ Daily Reading … Matthew 22