A Revolution of Love

Question-

If there were no heaven and there were no hell would you still follow Jesus?

If there was no promise of streets of gold or no threat of gnashing of teeth, would you still believe? What motivation would we have to dedicate our lives to one person. I would like to think I would still follow Him for the life, joy, and love he showed me and gave freely to the world. Would you? It is a crazy thing to face your God and realize he did not come to teach us how to die, but how to LIVE! Yes, eternity with him is a bonus, but its not all about what happens after we die, we have 1 life for a reason - do you know yours? Too often I think we take Jesus' life for granted in that its just a ticket out of hell a get out of jail free card, but beyond that I think its a ticket for life - do you live it? I try, everyday, and I fail... a lot!

At the age of 6 I was pretty sure God put me on the earth to be an actor, I mean how better to further the Kingdom and better the world than by being a celebrity (kidding)!? I had plans to build homeless shelters with my box office money, take trips to the jungles, and help put a giant band-aid on the world. Good intentions for a 6 year old if I do say so myself! Yet Jesus tells the rich man to sell ALL he owns and follow Him to truly find life. Funny he never said "take all you own and follow me - we may need all your junk!" Following Christ put a damper on my plans, lol, not because He doesn't care about what I want, but because He know my wants more than I do, but at 18 it left me puzzled because I knew then I was not going to college, I was going to act or be a missionary and well now we know how that panned out for now, but I WANTED option one. ;)

I read once "instead of waiting around for God's special plan in your life, you should just go find where God is at work and join in." We cant wait for heaven to "join in" that will be automatic and too late if you ask me. We have one life, one chance, one hope to change our world, whether its an election vote, mission trip, a good deed, feeding the poor, washing a friends car (hint hint) we have the choice to show love in this world and impacting one life is better than impacting none. You have nothing to lose, in fact you may gain something you never knew possible.

I cant walk or drive past a homeless dude without tears in my eyes, maybe because I think of my goal as a 6 year old and think how I must have let him down by not being famous, haha, ok not really for that reason, but because I think how can I love him more, how can I give him more, what can I do to fix this? I know there are schemers and such and everyone has an opinion about who is really homeless or not, but the point is that we give with love as the motive, what the person chooses to do with your gift is not up to you. You can only pray they use it for something good and if not, well again, its not your choice. The only choice we have is to give and to give in love! Jesus was homeless here on earth ya know...

Now I question myself everyday - do I live like I love Jesus? Not just on the surface, but to the point where people can say Rae died a long time ago and Jesus lives in her now... My GG (great grandma) told me once she could see Jesus shine in my eyes and its one of the best compliments I have ever received! But, I still have a lot of growing to do! So find where God is working and Join in!

Share your thoughts with me people!

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