Christ's words bring us great joy, yet following these words is also the hardest thing of all. The position that the Lord Jesus expresses in these words provoked the greatest indignation and protest from the scribes and Pharisees around Christ. These words of Christ place great responsibility on us. Above all, it is very important to remember them when we see people who are unpleasant to us, whose appearance or actions arouse our indignation, people whom we consider "bad." It is precisely them, the lost - not those in the process of perishing, but those already finally lost - whom the Lord Jesus came to find and save. After that, contempt for them is plainly impossible. But most importantly, He came to seek out and save us, each one of us. Not some splendid righteous people who earned a reward and became worthy of it, but us, lost under the weight of incurable sins. |
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