Love without Conditions

Go into the world and preach the good news! Then leave them starving, dirty, sick, dying, and uneducated. I know this isn’t what the Bible says but this is what our actions say. At what point did it become okay to hang the message of salvation over someone’s head, offering them food or medical care in return for a meaningless prayer. Without slamming anyone directly, I would like to bring attention to the misconception that by going somewhere and having somebody repeat a prayer after you makes a difference at all. People are dying. What means more to them, food or a pointless notion they know nothing about? If I was hungry or sick and someone told me that if I repeat after them I could have free food or medicine, of course I would say or do anything they asked. Gandhi once said “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” When did human life become cheapened by the idea of eternal life? Believe me I am not saying in any way that we should stop evangelizing. I am saying that way people do things now is really screwed up. It is selfish and self-gratifying. I have heard people come back from trips overseas exclaiming that they led, insert exaggerated number here, to the Lord. I never respond this way, but I would like to say, that’s awesome but how many people will hunger no more because of you. Can you guarantee their quality of life was improved by your visit? Will you have a continued relationship with them? Do they even know who Jesus is after you leave? “Gandhi also said ‘Act, but seek not the fruit of you actions.’ Your actions flow out of who you are, that’s the fruit. It’s a bit like being in love-when love just flows to the person you are in love with.” So I ask, what is the point of being kind for selfish reasons? Is that really giving at all? I know this is a crazy concept but maybe we should just give food because they are hungry,clothe because they are naked, educate because they are uneducated, clean because they are dirty, help because they are helpless, and love because they are unloved.
So I would like to challenge everyone who may come across this lame blog of mine. Open your eyes and look for people to help, but do it because you care. Not so everyone will know of all the good and great things you have accomplished. The Bible explains clearly "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress.” "Defend the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and love the alien, giving him food and clothing." There is poverty everywhere, Mother Teresa explains “The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or Leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness despair and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty-it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, there’s a hunger for God.”
So love recklessly. Love without conditions. This speaks much louder than any prayer any one could ever deliver.


P.S. Through a previous convo. with Jenn, this blog came to pass. I love that my friends can sit around and throw ideas around without any judgemental attitudes! Even though most the time I say something crazy and have to take it back.