SHOW ME SOMETHING!

Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.  - Luke 6:35

READ LUKE 6:20-38 TODAY

     I get this one all the time.  "She did it first!"  "But she was mean to me!"  Somehow my daughter's can use that to justify their actions. 

     Luckilly, this doesn't only happen with eight and ten year-olds!  Just to make sure things stay even, I know a forty year-old male who does it all the time too.  Isn't it crazy how we all hate our enemies?  Isn't is wacky that everyone is unkind to the ungrateful and wicked?  Wouldn't it be great if we could follow Jesus on this one?

      Maybe you're thinking, "No, not really!"  There's no reason to be cool to someone who had wronged you.  They get what they deserve.  And I get that......but Jesus doesn't.

      He's saying, "Show me something!"  Anyone can be cool to the people that are cool to them.  What separates us as Christ followers is being cool to those who are way uncool to us.

      Let's try that today.  Let's be cool to someone who is really mean to us.  Maybe send them a note, pray for them, say a nice word to someone who goes off on you.  Just see what happens - not to them, but to you!