Beautiful San Diego

What a beautiful day it was today in San Diego.  The weather was perfect.  And as I was talking to friends back home in the east, I found out that it was cold and nasty.  Such drastic conditions, yet in the same country.  And I started thinking about the church.  We have in our churches some people that are nice and beautiful and then we have those, that lets just say, are cold and nasty.  As for our weather, it is okay for there to be such differences, but in the church it should not be that way.  If we have Christ living in us, we should be new creatures, living our lives for Him. How can anyone have Christ and not have the fruits of the Spirit which are LOVE, JOY, PEACE, PATIENCE, KINDNESS, GOODNESS, FAITHFULNESS, GENTLENESS, and SELF-CONTROL. 

I have had friends and have known of others who had fallen in their walk with Christ, and when it became public, the “church” kicked them under the bus.  The people became very judgemental and the “fallen” ones had an even harder time trying to reconcile their situations.  We in the church ought to be the last ones to judge and be the first to love, not the sin but the sinner.  We should be the ones who help restore what the locust have stolen.

Are you sunny and warm or cold and nasty?  I pray as the church, we would show Christ love to all.