Loving God Means Loving People

All throughout the Bible there are many stories about many different things and many different people, but you’ll repeatedly see that the topic is love.

God’s love created this world and everything in and around it. Regardless of the translation you use, love is easy to find and you could choose from a number of verses to see the point of love, but after reading a number of them in my translation, THE MESSAGE, I have chosen one:
1 John 4:21
21 The command we have from Christ is blunt: Loving God includes loving people. You've got to love both.

This verse means something bold and simple. Bold is that to demonstrate our love for God, we must also demonstrate our love for other people. Now, think about this: God made all kinds, colors, nationalities and shapes of people and He clearly loves all of them. And Jesus clearly said If you’ve seen me, you’ve seen my Father. Aren’t Christians supposed to be like Jesus? In every place He went on this earth, who did He spend His time with? Mostly the ill and the handicapped. So we should do the same without question. And when we do so, we’re obviously are like Jesus, a.k.a. the Father.

Now, I guess because we have heard of diseases, we may know their cause, we understand the treatments and the cures, our ability to care for people with an illness has never been compromised. However, most all people have not ever cared for to any extent, handicapped people, so what this verse says is that clearly if you don’t demonstrate love for them, then you don’t love God.

Now the simple part is that to love God, you have to love other people too. Now, as I’ve already stated, That’s easy to do when we’re talking about ill/normal people, but when we begin to discuss handicapped people, that’s a completely different story.

So now my point may not what you’d expect, but it’s fairly simple and it coincides with that verse that I read to you: Do you love God? If so, then prove it by ministering to handicapped people!

That’s the group that has been missed!