There are people I write off because we just don't get along. I know it's okay to not be best friends with everyone and I know it's okay for peoples personalities to clash.That happens. But it's not okay for me to make that an excuse for not sharing the love of God with them. There are many people I've known and just never got along with. Therefor they annoy me. Therefor I don't treat them equally. Therefor I am not showing the love of God, I am not helping them grow spiritually and I am not reflecting Christianity the way I should. If I am not attracting them to Christ, I am distracting them from Him.
Hebrews 12
14 Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.
I have realized that when I get into better habits of studying and reading the bible more, I lash out less, care more, and smile easier. Like duh. How could that not help. I again, make selfish excuses to break those habits though. How can it be so obvious to me that my behavior is better, relationships are better, everything is better when I spend more time with God than when I slack, yet I still slack. Father, forgive me.
I think of it like working a job. Sometimes (most times) I don't feel like going. But I don't not go. I go, I receive a paycheck, and that makes it worth the hard work that I didn't feel like doing at the time. We get rewarded for pressing in in the times we most don't want to. Even if it's not then, even if we don't get anything out of what we read when we don't want to read, it benefits us somehow or another. How could it not? It is the living word of God.
Forgive me, God, for the people I have hurt. Forgive me for not staying in your word and for choosing my selfish ways over yours. Give me a passion for your word and for the people you have put in my life. Help me to reflect You in everything I do. May not one person I come in contact be distracted from you. Thank you for you grace and righteousness. Amen.
