Some Random Ramblings

One of my friends posted something on her Facebook wall which said: "Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy." That, as these sort of things often do, made me stop and think. Is it true? Does it reflect what Jesus said? Does it teach me anything, or shed new light on anything I already know?

The first thing that struck me is that God loves us 'without stopping to inquire whether or not we are worthy' - because, by His standards, we aren't!

…There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God… Romans 3:22-23

That's all of us. Hitler, Stalin, Mother Theresa, Genghis Khan, Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, your granny, Al Capone, the Pope, the Apostle Paul, you and, most definitely, me. None of us are or were, fundamentally, any different, if the scripture above is to be believed. In our eyes, there are what we might term 'degrees of sinfulness' - we don't like to think of our grannies or the vicar in the same breath as Adolf Hitler, or to place them in the same category - that of sinner. But, from the perspective of God Almighty, that is the case. It may not seem fair to us - but that is, I suggest, because we don't really understand the breadth and depth of the gulf which sin, any sin at all, creates between us and God.