Are You A Whosoever?

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I love y’all but when I say y’all I mean mostly the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. No offence. I try to love the rest of y’all but it’s hard sometimes. Some people are easy to love, like your family and friends. What about the extremely rude people who think their time is more valuable than yours? What about someone that kills for no reason other than being greedy and mean? What about that child molester or someone that stole your life savings. Most of us can’t comprehend the true evil that exists all around us. God sees all but He still loves us and wants everyone to turn from their sin, whether it’s unimaginable or petty. Sin is sin.

We’re human and we can’t understand the kind of love God feels for ALL of us. I have two boys and a husband that I love with all my heart and then I look at my grandchildren. The love I feel is so overwhelming that I want to cry sometimes. Two of them (twins) are fixing to drop at any minute and I can’t believe how much I already love them! But that’s nothing compared to what God feels for us. What if you felt that love for everyone that comes into your life? People would look at you like you’re crazy is what. I volunteer by grading tests for a prison ministry. I don’t know what kind of crimes they’ve committed but I pray for each one. They need and deserve my prayers. It’s not up to me to be their judge and jury, that’s up to God. Even if they never get out of prison, they could be convicted of their sins and help others in the process. I truly believe that our actions and demeanor affect others whether it’s in a prison or in church. If you’re kind and positive, others will take that and do the same. If you’re rude and hateful to others, more than likely, that will be passed on as well. Just remember, do unto others as you would have done to you.

​Can you just imagine how this world would be if we followed those two great commandments which are to love God with all your heart and soul and all the peoples too? We wouldn’t be able to get enough of God’s word, and we would be helping others all the time. We wouldn’t come up with excuses like, 1) I’ve got the achy legs today. 2) I’m getting old and going through the change and don’t like what I’m changing in to. 3) I’ve got to clean the fridge because there’s something stinky in it. I could go on and on, but you get the gist of it. We’ll never be like Jesus, but we can try to do better. We can try to help others more. We can try to be more compassionate. We’ll never be perfect, but we can try every day to do the best we can.

Don’t just pray every day. Pray without ceasing. Talk to God and keep him in your heart always so that you’ll have that relationship that He wants. I promise you that He will always be there. The Holy Spirit will always guide you, even when you’re not asking. If you mess up, which we all do, then He will help you get back to it. We’ve all got our free will, right? Can you imagine how many people He has to work through to answer our prayers? We have a first-hand account of Jesus (who is God on earth) that’s right there in the Bible for us to read and study. He tells us exactly how to live to have that relationship with God. He also makes it possible for us to go to Heaven when we die. It boggles my mind that people don’t want this. They want to live the way they want but what they don’t realize is that they’ll never be happy living for themselves. They will never be content and fulfilled.

​Jesus loved us sinners, but he really got mad at the hypocrites. He about blew his top off when he overturned the tables of the people who were trying to make money at the temple. He fumed at the religious leaders who were worrying more about all the laws and missing the whole point. He stood up for the children and said you better watch out if you mistreat them. And you better not be all self-righteous around Jesus because He would call you out on it!

Jesus got angry but he never sinned. We can’t let our anger cause us to sin. Sometimes life isn’t fair, period, but with God’s help we can get through it. We can forgive and forget and pray for that person that hurt us. I know this first-hand because recently someone made me so mad, I could have chewed them up and spit them out, but God told me to keep my big mouth shut. If I had said some of the things I was thinking, our relationship would have never recovered. I’m so glad I listened(that time). God knows so much more than me.

Thank the good Lord for his grace and forgiveness. As the hymn says, God’s grace will pardon and cleanse within, and is greater than all our sin. If God gives us grace, shouldn’t we give others grace too. I don’t deserve it, you don’t deserve it, but God gives it to us anyway. God is merciful when we ask for forgiveness so shouldn’t we be merciful? I can tell you that it’s hard to be merciful to someone that isn’t really sorry. Maybe you think that the I’m sorry wasn’t very heartfelt. Even if they hadn’t said, I’m sorry, you should still forgive and move on. Don’t set yourself up for future pain by holding a grudge. Let God guide you through it and especially out of it. Jesus said, “Take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor’s eye.” (Matthew 7:3-5) I heard someone once say, “Worry about your own eyebrows.” Same thing.

I have an friend that asks any stranger he meets if they know Jesus. He’s not a bit shy or nervous. I’ve taken evangelistic classes and know what it is to be saved but when I try to ask someone if they know Jesus, my tongue gets all tied up in knots and I forget everything. I know how Moses felt, for sure. I am not an eloquent speaker and I tend to speak in a very halting way. It’s worse now, what with the menopause fog clouding my little brain. It’s easier for me to write so I can erase and re-type to my heart’s content and get it exactly right (and then fret about it once I click submit). We all have talents to do God’s will and work. Even me. Even you.

​I used to tell my children every day to ‘make good choices.’ I worked at the same school that my sons attended. One day my youngest son drove me to school because my car was in the shop. He pulled into the front, and as I got out of the car, he said, “Make good choices.” I had to smile and realized that even when you don’t think they’re listening, they pull one out of the hat. “Every choice has a consequence,” I’d say. “Make sure it’s a good one.” It’s important to be mindful of that. 

So Verily, Verily, I say unto you, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE! You won’t be sorry that you showed love and compassion. You might be sorry that you were angry and bitter about something that wasn’t worth it. Be that WHOSOEVER, that believes in Jesus and has that everlasting life that God promised. I’m here to tell you that it’s the most awesome gift you will EVER receive. ❤️