I'm being rocked by the example of Jesus. I'm being rocked as I think more and more of the fact that Jesus knew Judas was going to betray Him. He knew, but He loved extravagantly anyways (John 13).
Too many times we, as Christ-followers, write people off. We decide they're hopeless causes. And so we stop hanging out with them, stop loving them. But Jesus washed the feet of Judas! His love for Judas was reckless and extravagant and demonstrated in this beautiful story of Scripture. And as Christians, which means followers of Christ, we are to follow in the example of Jesus. We can't continue to write people off, look at people as hopeless causes, people who will never get it, because even if it's true (nothing is impossible with God, though sometimes we still have a hard time living in that truth), we are called to recklessly love people.
Jesus, help us recklessly love people the way you recklessly loved people, even those farthest from belief in You.
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