Daily DIGG 01AUG2017

If I cannot find the face of Jesus in the face of those whom I regard as enemies, if I cannot find him in the unbeautiful and damaged, if I cannot find him in those who have the “wrong ideas,” if I cannot find him in the poor and the defeated, then how will I find him in bread and wine or in the life after death?

If I do not reach out in this world to those with whom he has identified, why do I imagine that I will want to be with him, and them, in heaven?

Why would I want to be for all eternity in the company of those I avoided every day of my life?

Source: Loving Our Enemies: Reflections on the Hardest Commandment

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Is this where the …”many will say to me, when did we see you” comes in ?
Matthew 25:31-46

Father God,
Help me see and value as you value.
Break My Heart and Finger’s grip on things that have no eternal value.