Don't Give Up on People

The most important assignment God gave is to love your neighbor as yourself.  Sometimes that seems like the most difficult one.  Sometimes it seems our neighbors make it hard to love them as themselves let alone as ourselves.  They hurt us, leave us, lie on us, lie to us, use us, abuse us, even hate us.  Getting along with our family, friends, co-workers, etc. is very challenging and complex.  How do you say the right thing?  When do you say it?  How do you give of yourself appropriately?  How do you respond to what they said and did?  Do you respond at all?  It's not easy.  That's why it's called the Golden Rule.  Gold does not come cheap.  It's precious and rare.  You work for it.  And you have to believe it's worth the work.  When you achieve it, it's by the grace of God.  You can't do it without God's love and power working in you.  But whatever you do, don't give up on people.  God put us here together for a reason.  Seek Him to understand how to make our existence together enjoyable.  Those precious moments where we work together in perfect peace, love and unity, are so worth it!