Pastor Mark's sermon this morning, on 1 Peter 3:8-9, seems especially relevant as we enter week 7 of this Life Groups session.
We all have varying degrees of harmony in our various relationships, no matter who we are. There are people we get along famously with, those we have little in common with but respect nonetheless, and then there are those who just rub us the wrong way.
You know who I'm talking about - those oddballs that you just don't understand, no matter how hard you try. We find them un-relatable, annoying, frustrating and bothersome. We'd rather avoid passing them in a hallway, let alone developing a relationship with them!
If you're in a Life Group, odds are you've even found one or two such people in it with you! If not, you no doubt have already thought of the names of a couple that you work with, are related to or cross paths with in some other way.
Guess what? Jesus loves them, too, and that means we are called to do the same! I'm not suggesting that it will be easy, but if this short passage in I Peter tells me anything, it's that I'm to treat everyone, everyone EVERYONE with love, respect, compassion, sympathy and humility.
How about you?
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