Mother Knows Best
There is a quote by Mother Teresa, “If you judge people you have no time to love them.” It makes you stop and think about how many times you look at someone for the first time and automatically have a preconceived notion about them. Already we have something in our minds that is hindering us from loving someone else. We are humans with weaknesses and failings, but we can change our way of thinking and our viewpoint. How do we do this? By following what we’ve been taught in the Bible: Love one another.
Mother Teresa, if you read through some of her quotes, obviously had a better understanding of what the Lord expects of us than most of us do. In many of her quotes that you find, she is speaking of loving each other. For the most part she talks about starting by loving those closest to you. We don’t have to do great things in order to make a great change in the world. By simply humbling ourselves to others, we can start to change the world around us. Instead of needing to be better than everyone else, we can change that to a need to serve those around us – to give up our own wants and needs so that others may have more than you. Yes, you heard that right – allow others to have MORE than you. This seems contradictory to the society we live in, doesn’t it?
When we look at others and allow ourselves to see Jesus in them, then we can serve them with hearts of love and not immediately judge them by what we view as their faults. Have you ever tried looking at every person you meet and seeing what Jesus would see in them instead of what the world would see? Within each and every human is an innocent child. Have you ever thought about that? We were all innocent children once - children without sin or evil in our hearts; until the world (and Satan) was allowed to influence us. Looking at those around us in this way forces us to offer love and not judgment at first glance.
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