I recently finished reading a book by my favorite author Tim Keller. The title is Generous Justice. The book tries to open your eyes to live out a life focused on how you truly do social justice in light of the Gospel. This is a constant struggle we have to deal with everyday. I always come back to Matthew 25:45 ……you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.
This verse gets straight to it as Jesus always does. He goes for the heart. He never disappoints when it comes to that. Where is your heart in doing what you are doing? Jesus never looks at the external. He sees the internal matter of the heart. That is what Tim Keller is getting at in his book. Because of the generous God that placed you on this earth in this time and because he wants to love you into a relationship with himself. What will you do for the least of these?
Will you sit in your box? Would you be willing to not think about yourself and your own self gratification? Or, be consumed by a loving God that sent his son in the most generous act of love to die on a cross for people that did not deserve his love, yet gave it to you for free? Take the free gift and give it to the least of these.
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