Learning to Love

I recently watched a video about two bodies that washed ashore in Norway and the Netherlands. It is a short video, but it really got me thinking. The majority of everyone reading this has life so well. Sure some of us might be lower class even into the poverty level. Sure we wonder if we will eat, we scrape by week after week, living ramen noodles diet. But we have so much more than others out there.

These two bodies, Shadi Omar Kataf and Mouaz Al Balkhi were two refugees from Syria living in France hoping to get into England at hopes of having a better life. In the video, the speaker, Anders Fjellberg, talks shortly on the definitions of a better life. I would imagine many people think that means to have that new tech device, do things with their family, have a new car or just having money. Anders then points how differently the refugees see it, just being safe, having some dignity, not worrying about your house being bombed, not to worry about the traffickers kidnapping you or a loved one.

So they leave, hoping to find some peace in the world. We have life so good. They would be happy just for a roof, yet we have to get that new iPhone. They would be happy with clean water, we buy bottles of water and fill landfills with our waste. They want peace, yet we fight amongst ourselves because of our differences in our denomination. We have so many gods in our lives, we forget to listen to our God. Jesus told us to love, so we close borders and leave these people with nothing.

I am torn in this. I do fear that letting in people, we could be letting in many who want to destroy us, but maybe we shouldn't fear so much that death they might never bring, and begin to fear the sadness we put in God's heart because we don't want to take care of his children who need help. This is a big thing right now but we need to start acting now.

Click HERE for a good read on learning to love and where the pic is from.

There is a big part of me that wants to fly to France and take water, food, clothes, and toiletries to these people. There is part of me that wants to bring them home. Help them get the legal papers to enable them to finally find some peace and security. I have both already, I am blessed. I want to do this because I want to learn to love. I want to learn to care about people I don't know, might never know, because I want to be more like my Jesus.

I think it is time Christians get together and start living life without fear of terror. Let me tell you a secret, you are going to die. Soon I believe it will not be if you die because of your faith, but when you will die. I am not saying we should rush off into death, but love unconditionally until that day comes. What can death do to us that God cannot heal?

Everyone of those refugees has a name. They have family they love. They all matter.




Here is a link to that Video. Take a watch.