Creating Love (Reprint August 27, 2007)

This is another reprint from my old Citizens of Another Kingdom blog.

Creating Love August 26, 2007

I am often troubled by preachers or writers who talk about "the last days". The way they talk, you would think that if they act hatefully enough that Jesus will come sooner. Just observing the world you would think that they are right.

The world is increasingly more hateful. Shop at your local department store, or better yet work in the field of customer service and you will find that hatefullness is a way of life with most people. Everyone seems to be up in arms, in your face, demanding their own way. It is becoming increasingly difficult to even living in this world.

My wife said recently that she feels like she needs to create more love everytime she goes out into the public. When she works in the food pantry she runs, she has to create love for the people that she serves. When she goes to the store to pick up groceries, she needs to create love in order to cope with the people around her. I believe that she has something in her thinking.

When we look at our country, we see it going down hill. We become angry with nonchristians, angry with illegal immigrants, angry with Muslims. We are simply becoming a more angry. The only answer is to ask the Holy Spirit to create love in us.

Christianity, Judaism and Islam all have a view of a last days senario. They also have passages in their scripture about loving God and loving one another. I often wonder why we all focus on the apocalypse, rather than focusing on loving one another. I believe that those very last times will one day come, when we are all unable to create love in our hearts for one another. The world can always get worse, but it could also get better. I would rather be the person that prevented the coming of the apocalypse by not giving in to hate, rather than be that last person who finally gives into hate, that will usher in the apocalypse.

Have a happy First Day.