have you ever noticed?!

have you ever noticed how different we are from Jesus?! outside of the fact that He was perfect and God made flesh, have you ever noticed just how our behavior can be so different than His?!

here's what i mean. as Christians, particularly new Christians, we surround ourselves with those who are Christians. we tend to ditch our friends who don't follow Christ, in favor of those who do. we tend to stray away and mock the un-saved because they aren't like us...but if we're really to live like Christ, we would do the opposite. though he had the 12 disciples, Christ surrounded himself, not with the scribes and pharisees, but with tax collectors, prostitutes, gentiles, the lepers...in essence, He was around the "scum" of the earth. He refuted the pharisees and scribes and all they stood for. why?! because they were arrogant about their righteousness. they were not God-like, as they claimed to be.

in another example, Christ cried. the Bible even states that "Jesus wept"...but somehow we feel that we are too "good" to cry. wouldn't this mentality suggest that we are "stronger" than Jesus?!

so why do we turn our backs to the homeless? to the prostitutes? to the drug dealers/users? to those who are un-saved? if we were to truely live like Christ, we would embrace these people and bring them to Him...after all, how can we save a saved person?!