In the news last night was the story of two high school youth who ended up stabbing a homeless man to death. They said that it was because one of the boys thought that the homeless man was looking at him and trying to "come on" to him. Whether he was or not we will now never know. What a sad commentary on our society if someone is killed because they looked at another person wrong.
Also last night I was reading an article from the Sanford herald written by my son Jacob, In that article Jacob was speaking about just how the artificial relationships of this society, Facebook, Myspace, etc. can be a hinderance to us developing the real life relationships needed to function well in our society. I wonder if the high school boy had more experience in real life relationships, if he would have been able to relate to the homeless man that he met in a different manner. I am not suggesting that online relationships are bad, but I wonder if they don't maybe impede our ability to form real life relationships?
In our real life relationships our real personality should be obvious to all! Especially as a follower of Christ, we want to be all that our Lord wants us to be. When Christ shines through in all of our relationships His grace is made obvious to those around us. It is said that with an online relationship it is too easy to pretend to be something that we are not. That can also be true of a Christian who lives in this world, they can pretend to be something that they are not. Therefore we strive not to be the perfect Christian living in the world, rather we strive to live our life as a gift from God that is to be enjoyed. To let our love of the lord be obvious to all in all that we do and say. Let's push to learn nothing more than how to live as Children of the heavenly Father in a world that does no know Him.
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