Beyond \u201cmere men\u201d<\/a><\/p>\nIs there anything about you that, if people only knew, they would not judge you so harshly?<\/p>\n
A little benefit of the doubt please.<\/p>\n
We all want to be understood and accepted. But most of us have learned not to expect much from one another in the way of understanding and patience. How sad. We have learned that people are pretty much the same \u2014 Christian or non-Christian: they\u2019re nice when you\u2019re nice or when you appeal to them, and not nice when you sin or you look like a loser. Push a Christian more than an inch and he will react pretty much like a pagan.<\/p>\n
But God has called us to be extraordinary. Paul chided the Corinthians for behaving like \u201cmere men\u201d (1 Corinthians 3:3). The place where God is glorified is the distance our love pushes through beyond where the world stops loving. Let us beseech the Lord for unkillable love. Let the world \u201c[take] note that these men have been with Jesus\u201d (Acts 4:13).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n
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