We tend to love people who are just like us, but not so much those who are not like us. Admit it, it's more challenging for both you and me to show love to strangers. God can through us today.

It’s easy to love people we have an affinity with, but do we show love by word and deed to those who are unlike us? God can help us with that -- He did that. He loves sinners like me. 

Jesus did that.. all the way to the cross and He sill loves us all. It’s a selfless love, aka it’s a giving kinda agape love. 

In this day when the foolishness of rampant promiscuity, antisemitism, and Open-borders in the western nations is so radically vogue and hard-pushed on citizens, we don't have to act or think unwisely in regards to love towards strangers, towards the Jews or towards others too. We can love people biblically by the Holy Spirit's grace.   

The mentality of the world today: "If only the world was just like me. I wish everyone in the world was like me..what a wonderful place that would be!” 

Want God to show you His love today... I mean in a way where you can start a love relationship with Him? This is such a huge love.  

Specifically, practically, exactly how does Jesus Christ (of the Bible, that Jesus..) come into my life?  What’s the process of becoming a Christian?  Four brief passages of Scripture in the Book of Romans explain how to turn your life around through the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

1.  Because of our sin, we are separated from God—All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23).  Few people dispute this, because we’re too aware of our weaknesses and moral failure.  We all have regrets, and most of us deal with guilt at various times and in various ways.  We know something is “broken” within us.

Someone sat down beside Will Rogers at a dinner and asked the comedian, “What's wrong with the world, anyway?”  Rogers replied in his famous drawl, “Well, I dunno, I guess it’s people.”  

In response to an article in The Times of London entitled, “What’s Wrong with the World?” the writer, Chesterton, replied, “I am. Yours truly, G. K. Chesterton.”  All of us are sinners, and we need to find some way for dealing with this problem.

2.  The penalty for our sin is death—For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 6:23).  This verse encapsulates the whole Bible in a nutshell.  God is life and light, He is pure and perfect.  His presence cannot abide sin and wickedness; and because we have sinned, we’re separated from Him.  As a result, we’re as dead as a tree limb when sawed from the main trunk.  The word death is used in the Bible in the sense of separation.  Physical death occurs when the soul is separated from the body.  James said, “The body without the spirit is dead” (James 2:26).  Spiritual death occurs when the spirit and body are eternally separated from God by sin.  But this verse goes on to offer hope: God wants to give us a gift—eternal life through Jesus our Lord.

3.  The penalty for our sin was paid by Jesus Christ—But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8).  The verb “demonstrates” is a good, solid, active verb.  It means that God didn’t just love us in a sentimental way.  He did something in human history that proved His great love.  It was the death of Jesus Christ.  Though we are sinners, Christ died for us.  The great message of the Gospel is this: God loved us despite our sinfulness, and He chose to become a man Himself—Jesus Christ, the perfect, sinless God-Man—and to die in our place, taking the penalty of our sins upon Himself that we might have the promise of His life for ourselves.  He loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life.

4.  If we repent of our sin, then confess and trust Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, we will be saved from our sins—If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.  For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. . . . For whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved (Romans 10:9, 10, 13).  There's a promise we believe and a Person we receive.  You can pray right now, telling God you’re ready to trust Christ as your Savior and confess Him as Lord.  By the time you get to the final “Amen” you’ll be a new person in Christ.  Why not pray right now:

Dear God, I admit I’ve sinned and fallen short of your glory.  I realize the penalty for my sin is death, and I believe it was paid by the shed blood of Jesus Christ.  I’m willing to repent of my sins, and I now confess Christ as my Savior and make Him the Lord of my life.  In Jesus’ name, Amen.

5.  Can you be sure that if you ask Christ to save you, He will?  Yes!  He has done it.  Take this promise with you: Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God….  These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life (1 John 5:1, 13).

Heaven is going to be so SO cool -- a place for selfless love. It’ll be like an incredibly loving family celebrating and loving each others and of course the One who loved us first, loved us most, loved us til the end.. closer than a brother kinda love and who loves you / us now. 

You can do this -- you can know the Lord well, and then make the Lord well known. He will fill, bless, help, provide for, and empower you. Now is good. Come as you are. This is only the introduction, but I am talking about an ongoing lifestyle of love in the Lord. 

Let God the Holy Spirit help you love Jesus Christ and others today as He did. Facebook.com/shareJesus

God Loves you right now -- He is there for you now. Talk to him and ask Him to forgive you and fill you.. to guide and use you for His glory.

Jesus said, "But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also. Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again. And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them. And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same. And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again. But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful." Luke 6:27-36

Simple, to the point, and clear enough.. "Let brotherly love continue. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers..." Hebrews 13:1a

Question ..if ya don't really mind me askin' you:  Are you tenderhearted or hard-hearted today? This world will make you hardhearted if you let it. #DontLetIt!

Please, even if it's not so wise to bring it up publicly with em or to out loud say it directly to them at this time (Might not be best--I've seen some believers go say "I forgive you man!" ..when that lost person doesn't even think they did anyone wrong). But go talk it over with the Lord of love and forgive all those believers or not-yet-believers who have wronged you.. in your heart and don't let the world make you hard of heart. Forgive em inside you. Choose to be humble even if you don't feel like it. Let grace strongly enter stage one. You need to ..and besides, the Lord can help. 

But why, Kurt? Cuz Christian, you and me.. we forever be ..currently are real brothers and sisters in God's big family. And strangers who are lost or saved.. cuz when you think about it there really ain't any other kind of stranger out there ..that we desire to win over to faith in the authentic Bible Christ and or to build up in Him (sounds dif, but I say it like that cuz you know too many preach their own made up non nonexistent Jesus). 

Why? Well (not to sound uber-churchy here but..), it's simply a good witness as we represent our Lord in this darkening dark world that He wants to make brighter through us obeying Him. Why? Well, because we also want all our biological full and half brothers and sisters ..all our family members and relatives, friends and enemies ..to also get right with their heavenly Father so they can harmoniously be with us in His family. Certainly, that's why we want to show it.. why we want to let love from above to continue. 

But hey!.. don't just take my words or mere opinions on this. Much more importantly, ask, seek, check out.. What exactly does God say about our familial charity? He says...

"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love." 1 John 4:7-8 

"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." John 13:34-35 

"Let all that you do be done in love." 1 Corinthians 16:14 

"And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you," 1 Thessalonians 3:12 

"By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers." 1 John 3:16

"Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins." 1 Peter 4:8 

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love.." Galatians 5:22 

"But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you." ~ Jesus, Luke 6:27-36 

"See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are." 1 John 3:1-24 

"Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers." 1 John 3:15-16 

"Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another.." See Colossians 3:12-15  kurtwvs.tumblr.com