What Would God Do?

Ask yourself what God would do!

When someone verbally attacks you, belittles you, criticizes you or persists in some form of behavior that bugs you, you must remember that you cannot fix a person, only God can fix people!

Sometimes, it is hard to believe, but God loves difficult people just as much as He loves you and God desires to bless the difficult personality just as much as the not so difficult personality. God wants to lovingly fix people and our job is to love them while God does His work.  That is why Jesus commanded us to love the difficult people in our lives.  Now, when I say love, I am not talking about a soupy, sentimental feeling!When I say love, I am talking about a commitment to their welfare, their good and their salvation while God does the fix. That commitment may require that you and I put our own feelings to one side and try to emulate God’s attitude in a difficult situation.

Listen to how Jesus explains it in the Sermon on the Mount: “…I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that?" (Matthew 5:44-47).