Love isn't love, til you give it away

Love isn't Love til you give it away
How is it that we, as modern day Christians, have shoved love into our pockets like a dollar bill that we choose when and where to spend it? Jesus' love was his life...and he gave it away as a ransom for all. Is it our "elect" status as Christians that make us feel so proud and special that we can judge and decide who receives our love and when? I'm afraid the people we choose, out of our human failibility, would not be the people Jesus would choose first. We in America, live in a society where respectability is given to those who have great successes on earth. What about the humble and unrespectable? Were not those the types Jesus often shared company with? Philip Yancy speaks of seeing people through "grace-healed eyes". We should see others on the basis of how God sees us, sinners whom he loves and desires. How much more effective would our ministries be if we looked the heart of a person and see their great potential in the Kingdom of God rather than looking at their clothes or behavior and seeing their potential in the kingdom of man?
Jesus stated many times that he did not come for the righteous or the well, He came for the sinners, the lost, the sick. Shouldn't we, as self-proclaimed disciples of Christ, be mimicking this exact behavior. As a line from one of my favorite songs says "Jesus paid much to high a price for us to pick and choose who should come." Who do you know that would not "fit in" with our church of today? That's who we should start with. I believe Jesus would have dinner with them right now...as they are. Everyone has to start somewhere...the lower down you are the more you appreciate what God has to offer. Blessed are the poor in spirit! Shouldn't we be rejoicing that the worst person still has God's grace and love offered to them? If God's love can span the entire earth, on every human, so should our love. We should be reaching to them, loving them, and desiring them, the way Jesus did. Only then can we truly come close to the magnitude of God's love and grace.
"Assuredly I say to you, in asmuch as you did it to the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me." Matt 25:40 NKJV
We are to love beyond normal human capacity. We are to reach beyond our comfort zones. We are to desire the undesirables. This was Jesus' way and so it should be ours.