woman and they had stones in their hands ready to fire away, ask yourself, are we as the body of Christ waiting with stones in hand? Or is our arms open wide to embrace and hold those who are hurting? In all my failures and down falls in life, my sins and running away, never once has God thrown a stone at me. He has always been there with open arms, to shelter me, love me and heal me.
I am by no means saying we are to encourage and applaud a life of sin. I am not saying we are to agree and accept it as so. We are however, are to love, share and teach the ways of the Father.
We are to pray and stand in the gap for those in need; to be a vessel who pours out unconditional love and for our words to be the words of the Father allowing them to become a balm of Gilead over their wounds, not by pouring salt into open wounds. It seems as a society we have our own grading scale for sin. We deem murder worse than lying, theft worse than affairs, addicts will always be the same and in general our society doesn’t believe in second chances. But the goodness of God does. He will continue to reach out in love to all his children, regardless of the mistake, or sin.
Think about it this way, as a parent would you turn your child out because of any mistakes he or she would make in life? Would you stop loving them?
Remember the prodigal son? What did his father do upon his return? He never said.” I told you so”, he ran to meet him on the road.
“But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. 23 Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and celebrate. 24 For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ So they began to celebrate." Luke 15:22-24
In the eyes of God, a sin is a sin there is no grading scale. But His love is everlasting and unconditional. He runs to meet us on the road, right where we are to celebrate our home coming. There are those who we have done all we can to reach out and embrace only to have them reject our love ,which in reality is the love of Christ; those who continue to choose to do wrong and harm to others. Yes we are to love them still. We are not called to belittle, degrade and humiliate them. We don’t have to agree with their choices, but we are to love them, just as Jesus loves us all.