Do You Love Me? Tend My Sheep.

There is much confusion about love in today’s society. We kick the word around and use it to mean a variety of things. We associate it with feelings, emotions and passions; seldom with efforts on behalf of others. To care for another, is not just to be concerned about that person, but to do what it takes to ensure the well-being of another.

One of my favorite things about Kairos is that it is operated by Christians from a variety of denominations.  We make no attempt to “convert” anyone to a particular way of thinking. We just show love by visiting, feeding and listening to persons who have lost all hope that anyone cares for them, loves them.

Jesus did not say to make converts to your way of thinking, but He said to look after His sheep, to see that they get nourished in the knowledge of Him.

Today we have substituted doctrinal belief for personal belief, and that is why so many people are devoted to causes and so few are devoted to Jesus Christ. People do not really want to be devoted to Jesus, but only to the cause He started. Jesus Christ is deeply offensive to the educated minds of today, to those who only want Him to be their Friend, and who are unwilling to accept Him in any other way. Our Lord’s primary obedience was to the will of His Father, not to the needs of people— the saving of people was the natural outcome of His obedience to the Father. If I am devoted solely to the cause of humanity, I will soon be exhausted and come to the point where my love will waver and stumble. But if I love Jesus Christ personally and passionately, I can serve humanity, even though people may treat me like a “doormat.” The secret of a disciple’s life is devotion to Jesus Christ, and the characteristic of that life is its seeming insignificance and its meekness. Yet it is like a grain of wheat that “falls into the ground and dies”— it will spring up and change the entire landscape ( John 12:24 ).

Do some tending for His sake and get some blessing.

Nick