(Nuggets from Matthew 5:45)
God is good to all His creation, irrespective of their age, color, status, race or religion. This is reflected in the equal privileges enjoyed by the entire human race: the air we breathe, the sunshine, and the rain that falls on all, both GOOD AND BAD.
God loves everyone in the world, both the good people and those who are evil. How do we know that? God is the provider, and He provides good in this way and countless other ways to all people.
Jesus has commanded His disciples to love their enemies and to pray for those who persecute them (Matthew 5:43–44). Now He gives one reason for doing so: this is to imitate God the Father, as earthly sons imitate their fathers. Jesus describes imitating the Father as a way to become one of His Sons.
God's goodness to everyone, no matter who they are, is seen in some parlance as "common grace." Jesus has described His disciples as the "light of the world" (Matthew 5:14–16). God is the source of the light in His people. Born-again believers are the tools with which He distributes His light into the spiritual darkness of the world. One of the ways God shows His light through us is when believers love their enemies the way God loves them.
The big picture in this is that nobody is beyond God's redemption by grace through faith in Christ.
As Believers, we can attract people to faith in Christ when we give good in exchange for evil, and when we pray for those who bring us pain.
If God could love all this way and be patient with us in spite of our excesses, we are all expected to do the same, and accommodate others, always treating people with equity.
Your good deeds could be an attraction to them, who knows how many people you could possibly win over to the camp of the Lord just by showing a little LOVE and KINDNESS?
This is HOLINESS CHALLENGE
DAY 102 OF 365 (2026)
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