If I don’t love you and feel an urgent sense to inquire of God’s mercy on your behalf then I don’t love Him, because you were why He came.  This is not a small thing that God loves you so much He separated himself from His beloved Son and then His beloved Son voluntarily drank the world’s sin to set the condition where you might be forgiven and redeemed to God.  Don’t tell me that you aren’t moved at all when you hear that God loves you so much and desperately wants to fulfill the purpose for your creation.  I have already seen the tear in your eye when I reminded you.

Why does man so desperately run from God.  Cold, naked, hungry, tired and alone, people are simply afraid.  They already loath themselves to the point of doubtful forgiveness.  No wonder they would be afraid of standing in front of angry God’s criticism.  Yes, remember, they don’t know God so all they hear are the rebukes, put downs and recriminations of the enemy telling them that they will never amount to anything.  How then are we to tell them about God utilizing the same criticism employed by the enemy.  I am not in charge of the hearts of my Christian Brothers and Sisters but if I hear one more person tell me that they are not obligated to help a homeless person with money because that person is just going to use it for booze or drugs, I am going to pull out the two edged sword of God’s Word.  We were told to give and also told if we hold back when our neighbor asks that again we sin, so stop trying to justify your disobedient behavior.  Stop trying to be the counselor for the poor, disenfranchised or addicted and love them as Christ would have you love them.  Oh, so you say Christ would not want you to give them money because they will potentially just hurt themselves.  Well, let me put to bed.  If Christ told you that this unbelieving homeless person was going to die tonight without the gospel message if you didn’t take the opportunity you’ve been given to show him/her love, how then would your determination be transformed?

Stop justifying your behavior and obey Christ’s commands.  Stop holding up your own self-righteousness as something other than the filthy rag that it is and show God you love Him enough to do as He had directed.  If you knew that each person you meet was going to die tonight or that God was coming back tonight for His Church, you would conduct yourself differently.  That is the mentality He directed us to maintain, a sense of imminency and urgency of purpose synonymous with a belief that He might come back tonight.  You see it changes you to think that way.  It makes each bite of food a little better tasting, each handshake a little bit more important and increases the gravity of every action or inaction.  He loved them enough to die for them and that is enough reason for me, I don’t need my own justification.