We come into contact with all types of people. Each person is unique in his or her own way. It doesn’t matter the color, the social status or even the gender of a person when it comes to doing what it right. What is the right thing? Treating people the very same way that you desire to be treated. All to often we as a society tend to overlook the needs of others simply because we have stereotyped, profiled and made assumptions off of appearances most times and not facts.

I have a very fulfilling career. I have the opportunity to meet people from all walks of life and it is usually at a weakened time in their lives. Despite the skin color, their religious beliefs or the different view points they may have it is my legal responsibility to treat them with dignity and respect. Should a state licensure be the deciding factor as to how I treat people? No, of course not. I have a moral obligation to uphold the standards that have been taught to me not only from my parents and my grandparents but by the example that my Lord and Savior left within the contents of the Holy writ. Christ didn’t discriminate so why should we?

It is not for us to pass judgment upon others. Sure we bear witness to the fruits that others produce or even fail to yield. It is our responsibility to intercede for them and continue to be an example. It is not our position to conform to the levels of those who are lost. It is our role however to extend mercy as mercy has been extended to us. We have got to stop walking around acting as though all is well in the world when we know that it is not. There are souls of all walks of life who need to know that the Lord does in fact live. They need to know that despite what life has thrown their way that God loves them and even in their situation he is still in control. We need to feed them on both a natural level and a spiritual level. How hard is it to turn down a plate and bless someone else with a meal? How hard is it to put that new outfit on hold and bless someone who is in need with something to wear? Its not that hard at all, its a matter of choice. Is it really that difficult to sit and listen as someone who is in need of someone to hear them speaks from the heart? No it’s not that difficult. It is a matter of making adjustments throughout your day to fit in the things that really does matter.

I’ll share this story with you. I have a elderly patient who is of a different ethnicity and his culture is foreign to me. I see this person three days a week. His elderly wife does the best she can to take care of her ailing husband. She keeps up their small apartment to the best of her ability. She is truly a strong tower to those who see her. Every time I see her she has garbage that she has to bring down from the second floor. I witnessed her doing this for months. My concern was for her husband initially because he was my patient he was my responsibility. Now this woman can be quite a pistol to deal with at times and it’s not hard to develop a little intolerance for her ways. I got convicted one day. When I looked at her, I no longer saw this annoying little old cantankerous woman. I saw a older woman who had spent her life devoted to her husband and who was spending her latter years providing for his every need in sickness. I saw a woman who was doing it on her own, who was dedicated to her religious beliefs and who made sure her husband prayed to the God that they served. It was then that I made the hike back up the stairs to grab her garbage and take it out to the trash outside. I decided to carry her travel baggage because it was bigger than she was. Not because I had to, but rather because it was the right thing to do and if you really look at it, yes I did have too.

It is time for us to stop being so self- centered. It is time for us to come up on every level. The bible says in 1 John 4:16-17 ( New Living Translation)

“We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them.

And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world.”

Verse 20 goes on to say

” If someone says,” I love God,” but hates a Christian brother or sister, that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see?”

If you can’t show love to your brothers and sister you can’t love God. So today please allow me to encourage you to do what you know is right within your heart despite what others may think or say.

Be Blessed,

Evangelist Camille Frazier