Here I am, in my bedroom, listening to Boyce Avenue acoustics, recollecting my past week. And my past year.
The reality is people make a conclusion of you based on what you do, what you’ve done, and perhaps when they find out about your wrongdoings in the past, they conclude you to be a loser. Basic fact : People judge based on what they see and what they think they know.
Sometimes, I find that in a religious assembly, there’s always a clique, that if you don’t make past the group’s cut of point, you’re not in. And you become an outcast. People give a connotation that you don’t belong here, cause “you ain’t like us.” But, is this what we call a family?
We love our siblings because they were biologically made by our parents, and simply because, they’re family.
Shouldn’t we love every other person out there because they’re made by our Dad?
Take a drug addict, or a pimp who sits in the church pews in a service. Will other members talk among themselves about “how sinful they are”, “what on earth are they doing here in church?” and avoid them because they’re not dressed properly, or don’t behave in the same manner as church members. And then they leave… unnoticed.
I believe we’re not any bit more perfect than any other soul in this world. Who ever said that God loves a pastor MORE than He loves a drug addict? God’s love is the same for all, and who are we to judge and segregate one another?
Who ever said that He loves a man who saved a four-digit number of souls, MORE than an adulterer?
He loves us all the same.
I’m not saying that it’s okay to go around committing sin, since you’re equal to a man of God, but what I’m trying to say is that, we are not in position to treat the lower class worse than we treat those who are well, because what matters is truly WITHIN the person, in which we do not know completely.
Instead, it’s all about loving every person the same. Sincerely, whole-heartedly.
We definitely should take certain people in our lives as role models for us to follow. It’s a great guide for us to live better.
But, just remember at the back of your head that, above all circumstances,
people can still fail you.
Although this message may be a cliche, but if you just stop, and look through the life around you, this is everywhere.
And as we always follow after the footsteps of others, we too, gotta think and create better footprints, for those younger than us, to follow.
I myself have followed blindly, but God sends people to make you realize, and change for the better.
Perhaps we can reach times when we are so painfully ashamed of our weaknesses, we pull out of society, and just be the wind. Perhaps we are ashamed of our past. We are afraid to get ourselves into people, because we are afraid that our flaws would show, and people would discriminate us.
But, we gotta accept who we are – the good, the bad, the ugly, and learn to live a life driven by our passions, geared by our strengths, and in the mean time, sharpening our weaknesses to become strengths. Nobody is perfect.
What about love?
Human love, loves those who love them.
Human love, loves those who are like them.
Human love, loves those who help them.
Human love, loves those who are amazing.
God’s love, loves the murderers, adulterers, the nerds, all colours, all pasts, all sinners.
God’s love, is for all.
Loving every person for who they are, and treating a beggar like treating a king.
Unconditional love.
This, I make my resolution this year.
