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11/01/2009 07:11 PM
Dear Judy,
Sometimes I am faced with the realization that I really don’t love people. Actually, I hate them. Oh, not my friends, but people in general. The creep who broke into a car downtown, pulling this small dog out and throwing the dog against a wall a few weeks ago. And the mother who beat her 3 year old so often and badly that the child’s legs had to be amputated. Today’s paper said she only got 12 years. What’s more, she’ll get off early for good behavior. It makes me so angry and hateful toward people. I am a Christian, but I can’t find one iota of love for people like this. Is it so wrong? I doubt even the Lord has love for creeps like that. Signed, Justly Angry!
Dear Angry One,
We all know there are very cruel people in this world. I travel full time and I see some awful things happening to animals, children, elderly, and really people of all ages. All of this sinful behavior started in the beginning of time with the first human beings (Adam and Eve) who disobeyed God’s commands (see Genesis 3:1-24). Disobedience is sin and sin will separate a person from God. Adam and Eve were influenced by satan to disobey God and sin entered mankind. The reproduction of that sin has gone on and on through time, producing despicable behavior to which you refer.
People have become desensitized to correct moral behavior. Sadly, some people hold no value on the life of another human or animal. The Bible tells us what will happen if a person or society turns away from God and disobeys His commandments. We live in a society that does not want to display the Ten Commandments in public places, so how do we expect that to affect people! This is just one of many examples of how our society has departed from God and His principles.
But back to your question -- Does the Lord love creeps like those you mention? The answer is YES! HE DIED FOR THEM!
A well-known Scripture tells us how much God loves the whole world, including people who do terrible things: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). God loves the world, and not just those who choose to follow Him. He yearns for changed hearts among all of us – from the “good people” who don’t have God in their lives to the most vile of sinners.
The Apostle Paul wrote, “For there is no partiality with God” (Romans 2:11). With God, sin is sin. Good works or right moral character isn’t what enables a person to become a Christian, but what a person does with Jesus Christ.
We have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). Every day of our lives, we see the evil acts people commit because they aren’t following God’s ways. Satan is at work blinding the eyes of mankind to God and causing them to disobey God.
Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” The people who disturb you so much (and understandably so) have no direction, no truth, and no life because they have no Jesus! They need your compassion, pity, and prayers. This is Jesus’ way, the way He wants us as His followers (Christians) to do. If you find you can’t do that, then you are disobedient to the commandments of God so where does that leave you? Needing to repent and start praying! I hope this helps.