You Will Never Look into the Eyes of Someone God Doesn't Love by Patrick Carden

By Patrick Carden
Let's stop pretending: you will never....ever look into the eyes of someone God doesn't love. That's not a sweet bumper-sticker slogan. That's a blazing truth meant to rip apart our excuses, our prejudices, and our carefully constructed walls. Every person you glare at, gossip about, scroll past, or write off—God loves them. Fiercely. Relentlessly. Without conditions. So, the real question is not whether God loves them. It's whether you do.
You Will Never Look into the Eyes of Someone God Doesn't Love by Patrick Carden
 
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Let’s stop pretending: you will never....ever look into the eyes of someone God doesn’t love.
 
That’s not a sweet bumper-sticker slogan. That’s a blazing truth meant to rip apart our excuses, our prejudices, and our carefully constructed walls.
 
Every person you glare at, gossip about, scroll past, or write off—God loves them. Fiercely. Relentlessly. Without conditions.
 
So, the real question is not whether God loves them. It’s whether you do.
 
God’s Love Doesn’t Need Your Approval
 
You don’t get to veto God’s love. You don’t get to say who is in and who is out. You don’t get to shrink the cross to fit your comfort zone.
 
When you withhold love, you are not protecting the purity of the Gospel. You are betraying it. When you dehumanize, dismiss, or despise someone, you aren’t standing for righteousness. You are standing against the God who made them.
 
Let’s be blunt: to claim Christ and yet refuse love is to live a lie.
 
Love Your Enemies or Stop Calling Yourself a Christian
 
Jesus didn’t say, “Agree with your enemies.” He didn’t say, “Like your enemies.” He said, “Love them.”
 
If that command makes you squirm, good. It should. Because following Jesus was never meant to be comfortable. The cross isn’t comfortable. Radical love isn’t comfortable. But it is the standard.
 
So, if you find yourself explaining away why you don’t have to love someone God already loves, you’re not following Jesus; you’re following yourself.
 
Eyes That Condemn or Eyes That See
 
The eyes you avoid, the eyes you roll at, the eyes you refuse to meet — those are the eyes of someone God calls beloved.
 
Every set of eyes you look into is a mirror reflecting this challenge back at you: will you join God in loving them, or will you set yourself against Him?
 
Because let’s be clear: there is no neutral ground here. To choose not to love is to choose against the heart of God.
 
No More Excuses
 
You have never, and you will never, look into the eyes of someone God doesn’t love. Not once. Not ever.
 
So, stop living as though God’s love is selective. Stop weaponizing religion as a shield for hate. Stop confusing your prejudice with holiness.
 
If you want to follow Jesus, then follow Him all the way, to the tax collectors, the sinners, the Samaritans, the enemies, the outsiders. Follow Him until love costs you something. Follow Him until you see what He sees in every pair of eyes you meet: infinite worth.
 
Because if God’s love is wide enough for them, and yours isn’t, then it’s not them who needs to change. It’s you.
 
Patrick Carden
 

 

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