Last night on my way home from work, the radio station I was listening to was discussing a guest that had been on the Ellen Show recently. You may have seen the show; with Marc Martel, lead singer of a Christian band, singing a Queen song on Ellen. The controversy began with the fact that he was singing a song written by a man who lead a gay life style and died from it as well, then to have him preform the song on Ellen, who is currently living in that lifestyle got the debate going more. The station (a Christian station) DJ made a wonderful point that we are all sinners, and that if we heard any song on the radio during his show, the button was pushed by a sinner, so we could hear it.
I thought about this all evening long last night, and during my prayer time, I found myself praying about it. I'm a FIRM believer that we, as Christians, are to show Christ's love to the world. By doing this, we are to model ourselves after Him, at least that's how I see it. If I'm modeling myself after Christ; then I would see how He hung out with the sinners all the time, even his closest friends had some pretty serious flaws. But the Christ I see in scripture (this would be where my handy dandy search machine would come in handy!) He loves them, He sees them as His children! What an awesome image that is, because if we are all honesty, even just a little bit; we have sinned. I have sinned, I doubt, I judge (notice how these are all in the PRESENT tense?), I lie, I do all kinds of things that are sin. Yet, through all my sinning; I can see God growing me and teaching me lessons; lessons on love and forgiveness. If Christ loved ME enough to show me those things, who could I assume He loves someone ELSE less?
All this to say, If WE don't show people the love of Christ, who will? When I die, and get to meet my Savior face to face, I want to hear Him say "Well done, my good and faithful servant, well done." I don't want to hear Him say "Who are you? I don't know you." I want to be an agent of His love, because His love, grace and mercy are the things that have saved me; how could they do less for others?
The Queen song that was sung, Somebody To Love, says a lot about how Freddie Mercury must have been feeling at that point in his life. In the song, he is actually praying and begging God to find him somebody to love, what a picture that is to me! I know that I have felt that way before, and I know that my reaction was the same, PLEASE God, find someone to love me! God's reassuring answer is, I already have; I sent you My Son who loves you very much. Thank you so much Lord! How can I ever thank You enough? I know one thing, I can't keep this love to myself, I have to share it with those who need it, long for it, are searching for it. Lord, give me Your eyes to see the lost and hurting everywhere around me.
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