It's a lesson I am learning. It is so easy to look at someone in a hardship and think "good, you deserve that." It's easy to have a hard heart, and make excuses why not to help someone, to look at the fact they would never help, and that they would do worse, so, that's reason not to do for them.
The problem with having this heart, is that it is not to be the heart of a child of God. I know this is one of my greatest struggles.
It's easy to look at all the great people in the Bible, and forget that they, too, had many faults. Murders, and adulterers... Things we view as some of the "worst" sins, yet they were of God, and they helped, and were helped of God.
Love is to overlook faults, to help anyway. This doesn't mean to allow a murder to murder, but it means they also need Christ, and as a child of the Living God, you (I am) are to share Christ with them-Share Love with them.
I often find myself getting wrapped up in all the faults of a person, and wanting to refuse the fact I need to love them anyway, like God loves me.
Counting the blessing that Jesus took the price so I don't have to face what I deserve as a sinful human being.
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