Wow, what a week!

There is so much going on in our little community this week. Satan's got his claws in deep this time. All I know to do is pray, pray, pray! Who am I to judge the acts of others? All I can do is extend the same grace to them as Christ did to me. Only one is fit to judge men!

God's really been talking to me these last couple of weeks. Through a combination of Joyce Meyer, Chuck Swindoll, Pastor Kevin and our Sunday School class, God's been getting to me about religious attitudes and legalism. How can I condemn others for not fitting into my mold? Or how can I look down on others for being sinners when I am one myself? I believe it's in the book of Matthew where Jesus warns us about trying to get the speck out of our brother's eye when we've got a plank in our. That has so been me this past year or so. I've been feeding my life with so much of the world that I've almost lost Him in the mix.

A friend of mine sent me a You Tube video about this very topic yesterday. I'll try to put it in this post so you all can see it too. I was so reminded of all that I can be if I rely on God and not the world. He is my King and my Father and he wants me to be with him all the time! Plus, he wants me to show love to my fellow believers and sinners alike. He wants me to show love and not religion. He wants me to show love and not legalism. He wants me to show love. That's all, just love. Nothing else. No judgment, no condemnation, no critical spirit, no condescension. None of it, just LOVE! How about you?

I think if Christians would just try to love each other and lighten up a little.......well, I know God could do a lot better work through us! So here's my challenge to us all: try to love everyone a little more today. Don't gossip about them, look down on them, give them advice, or try to change them. Just show them love. We never know, that seed might just grow a mighty oak.