Question: How good does a person have to be before we label them as GOOD? In other words, when does a bad person become good? And how hard do we look for the good in people, anyway? Yes, I know the picture is exaggerated, but there is more truth here than makes me comfortable! Consider the worst person you can think of, you know, that particularly rotten individual that we all seem to know... is there anything about them that is good? Now look at the following picture and think...
People loved him, he was a great speaker, he loved dogs, he painted, he was a forceful military commander - yet at his command, millions upon millions of people died as a result of his hatred. After all that- think about the following verses...
Romans, Chapter 5
6 For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die. 8 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Jesus, who is called Christ, died for this man as well as for you and me. Even that really rotten person we all know!!! Perhaps it would be better NOT to grade others and just accept this one fact: God loves us all, even the worst of us. Now, the real question is... what are we going to do about it?