Helping others/witnessing

So this will surely bring some negative feedback.  However God has told me this is a topic of concern.

We all know that as mom's that the first mission field is at home. We also have an obligation to help and be there for others.  A huge trend among Christian moms seems to be that we are really selective about our willingness to help others or witnessing to them.

Example :  That mom down the road is nice, her daughter is nice and sweet as pie and it is easy to entertain her for awhile and give her mom a break.  However that little monster boy who lives down the road also whose mom is single and every time he drives by he runs over my toes with his bike and sneers at me... I would never offer to take him or invite his mom to coffee.   OUCH!  The problem is that I did not see Christ spending a lot of time with the nice, perfect, easy, pleasant, good looking people in the bible.  What I see time and time again is that he actively sought out those people we would turn our backs on and chose not to associate with.

Maybe the single mom down the road is in desperate need of a break so she can build her resolve to go at it one more day.  Maybe the man at the beach with his little boy just needs someone to pray with him or over him.  Maybe that little girl with the dirty clothes and the head lice YES I said that.  Just needs someone to show her a few minutes of love so she feels worthwhile and not like she is a reject.  Maybe all these people who don't fit into our world view of people we want to witness to need it the most.  The nice people, nice looking people who are not Christians certainly are not less worthy of our time but it seems to be that we spend too much time focusing on them.

When we see these less then desirable people ..... the mean little boy, the dirty little girl, the single mom or the pregnant teen I think we need to command our thoughts.  I think we need to take them captive and try just once to see them the way Christ did.

I was that little girl with a single mom.  A mother who was widowed,  A mother left with and 11 yr old son and a 1 year old daughter.  I was kept clean however growing up in the 70's without a dad lead many to assume my mom was divorced.  They did not take the time to find out that her husband had been a brilliant engineer with Bell Labs making cutting edge strides in his job.  They looked and saw......"Single Mom".  The most wonderful nonjudgmental people I had consistent contact with were the Mennonites.  Caring, kind, compassionate and filling Christ's great commission.  Let us strive to be those people.   Search your heart, control your thoughts and try to view people with the value Christ saw in them not the world.