Tangible Love

This week God has really been challenging us to show love to others. Our neighbors, those we pass on the road. The greatest command is to the Love the Lord your God with ALL your Mind, Heart, Soul and Stregnth, the second greatest is to Love your Neighbor as Yourself. I have to admit I fail at both. I want to love God with my all but I fall so short. I am not sure if I think much about the second command.

This week I listened to the free audio book of the month at ChristianAudio.com, called Crazy Love. It was a very interesting and thought provoking book. Although I don't agree with everything taught, I was very challenged to show tangible love to those around me. My ultimate goal is to share the Gospel with them but I can love them as an evidence that this Gospel that I am sharing is REAL.

Christ said that whatever we have done to the least of these we have done it unto Him. If we look at the Gospels we see Christ Jesus consistently giving those those around Him, knowing they were "using" Him, that they wouldn't follow Him.
So, how can I put this in to practice? I feel like God has been giving me opportunities but I have to be trained to respond correctly. During my run on Tuesday morning, I passed by an older lady carrying her groceries home. I should have stopped and offered to carry them for her, but I didn't because I "HAD to finish my run," pretty sad. Yesterday I did better. James I went out to try and visit a couple of people, which didn't work out, and on the way home we saw 3 people working on a vacant house very close to ours. I went home, got some cookies and took them over to them. They are the relatives of the new owners which have 3 children. I made a new contact and showed the love of Christ. Simple... some may say stupid, but I have to start somewhere.