$5 Foot Longs

I usually never comment in sabbath school on much. I am always thinking of a lot of things to discuss and say but they just don't make the leap from my brain to my mouth. This is one of the things I was thinking of yesterday.

My thoughts are about the Christian idea of service to our fellow humans. I will start with a little quote first:

"He (Jesus) did not use love like money, paying some and withholding from others in an effort to control them. He spoke the truth, He wasn’t offended when people didn’t agree, and He gave them their own will to do as they wish. But what’s more, He loved them regardless. He loved them whether they followed Him or tried to kill them. He even loved them while they were killing Him." Donald Miller

For myself I think it is important that I dismiss the thought that there is a divide between me and you. We are all God's children, all equal. In my interactions with you it is important that I take away the thoughts that I am so different, take down the walls. Man, woman, rich, cartoon watcher, poor, ugly, unpopular, Christian, homosexual, college educated, Asian, vegetarian, mac and cheese eater, fat, tall... We are all equal to God but we have so many categories that we file each other into. As a Christian I can sometimes think my job is to change you from the bad to good side, I am Jared from Subway with my $5 foot longs and if you want to lose that weight you're gonna need to convert from that fatty McDonalds Big Mac. But I have never liked that.

I want to go through life being a Christian of course, but really I want to be a friend. I am a person and I want to know you, a person. I don't want to start my relationship with you with an agenda. And if you never "eat any $5 foot longs" it doesn't matter in even the slightest way because I can still value our relationship as fellow humans and maybe we could be friends and I could borrow a cup of sugar from you and I could help move in your new stove and we could hang out and that would be great and I could love you just as much with or without you loving Jesus.

In the end I am sharing my love. That love I learned from Jesus. And it is Jesus that can work with the love of friendship.