I Love People
The coffee was weak. But that’s just me. I like my coffee strong. The food however was good and the waitress was pleasant. We were eating breakfast in a Waffle House and enjoyed our meal. Yes, the food and waitress were good. But that was not the most enjoyable part of breakfast.
I am a people watcher. I love people. I have found that most people, real people, can get along and will treat each other kindly. As I watched that morning, the employees behind the counter worked well together. With their good-natured laughing and joking you could tell they enjoyed each other’s company. Their camaraderie even spilled over to the customers, filling the whole place with joyfulness.
I Love People
The restaurant was not full but it was doing good business. Many cultures were represented. An elderly black grandfather fed a Juke Box and chose country music. Two older white women sat behind us enjoying their food and conversation. A family came and sat at the counter. We tried to guess their nationality. One of them wore a cap with a flag on it. Because of the flag, I guessed it to be Peruvian. As I said, many cultures were represented in this joy-filled restaurant.
In our world, politicians develop power by dividing the races. Talking heads in the news industry thrive by spreading hatred between people groups. But we are better than that. When Jesus talked about The Good Samaritan, He was challenging us to be good to each other. He wants us to see all people as neighbors regardless of race, religion, or cultural differences. We need to learn to say, I Love People.
I love people
The powers that be hate it when people get along. They know that people who get along can’t be controlled by evil people. So let us make their lives miserable. Love your neighbor as you love yourself. Lift each other in prayer. We can glorify God with our actions and make the world a better place with our smiles. Be like Jesus and say, I Love People.
I Love People
“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.
By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. We love Him because He first loved us.
If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.”
I John 4:7-21 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/1jn.4.7-21.NKJV
Douglas & Deborah Huff
From Down Where the Pavement Ends
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used to do that on Saturday evening Grand Dad would take me and Grandma for ice cream it might have been DQ or Tasty Freeze – any way we ate in the car and watched people walk by .