Haman, Jesus, You and Love/hate.

~Charles A. Chavez~
Have you ever found yourself hating someone? hatred is easy to acquire but when it grows it consumes all that you are. Haman began his campaign against the Jews after his anger had grown. His anger became so strong he couldn't focus. God loves people so for us to Hate those who God loves we have become an antonym of God. in Romans it says "God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us" It bears a lot of weight because if God loved us so much to die for people shouldn't we in our affection for God, love people? I used to think christianity was all about God and People, but in the past few months that has majorly changed. I realized christianity is all about Jesus. The sacrifice we must make because we love him who first loved us.
In philemon it says:
"Though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, Jesus, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross."
God loved us so much he made the ultimate sacrifice. Jesus, himself told us this was the greatest sacrifice for love he could make. He said "Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends." it is because Jesus was so radical about us, that we are so radical about Him. Paul says "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal." for these next three weeks we have to be love because without it were really not going to be loving Jesus. Our goal is to be a synonym not an antonym of Jesus because we as humans have a desire to be like those we love. Hell is a real threat to these people Jesus understood that. We need to grasp the fact that we are clay trying to be like the potter. it is impossible for us to be Jesus but not for us to be like Him. Pray for us as we do this, we wouldn't want to, in our own desires, be an antonym of jesus or a reproof to those who do not know him. So as we begin our journey Can I challenge you to begin yours? Lets love Jesus together. I challenge anyone who reads this to consider whether they themselves are an antonym of Jesus. Then take the easiest option; change, because the only alternative is hell.