Yes you read it right – I am coming out of the closet.

It seems that everybody is coming out of the closet, and Oh! The angst it seems to bring to many believers in Christ! Well – I’m Coming Out of The Closet Too – it’s high time that I did it too – so here goes …. I LOVE!

WHEW!! I feel better!! Now, I am free to live out that truth about myself.

I admit it – I love my friends (those who I have known all my life, and those I have met along the way); I love my enemies (those with whom I have come to some form of reconciliation and those who have determined that a relationship with me will not be possible); I love Black people; I love White people; I love Asian people; I love Mediterranean people; I love Middle Eastern people; I love Muslims; I love Jews; I love Africans; I love Europeans; I love the Dutch; I love Catholics; I love the charismatic church; I love the conservative church; love the world that God made; I love sinners – yes I do! I love homosexuals; I love liars; I love adulterers; I love haters; I love the fallen; I love the redeemed; I love the wicked; I love the merciful; I love Republicans; I love Democrats; I love those who love me and I love those who don’t; I love you – yes you!! You name them – I love them!!

Why – because I am a bond-servant of a King who has commanded that I love – just as He loved me. I will LOVE, because if I don’t I’ll be guilty of placing before the world an image of Christ that is not true; I will LOVE because if I don’t, this world might never know the love that I have found in Him. They may never know that He loved them enough to give His life for them. I will love because He Loved!! He LOVED!! In spite of my wicked nature, the sins that so easily beset me, my carnal tendencies, my faults, my failures and even my rejection of His truth – He Loved Me right into his arms. I will LOVE!!

I have become sick of the hate that spews out of the mouths of those that call themselves Christ followers. He placed us in this world as agents of his love and salvation so I am determined to walk everyday of my life outside of the closet – living as my Savior did in a world that is lost and scarcely knows it. I won’t just love in words – I will love with my actions; I will pray for you and for them; asking for God’s best for you and for them. I will, whenever possible, show them love in a tangible way.

I won’t use my mouth (or my pen, or my keyboard) as a weapon against them. I won’t allow my thoughts to make them something less than what God has intended for them to be. I will love them when they make me proud, and when they fail me miserably.

So, there you go!! I’m out now!! Not going back in – NOT EVER!! I surely do wish more of you who call yourselves a part of the Body of Christ would do the same! Let’s have a Love Coming Out Revolution! The World needs it!

But the fruit of the Spirit is love … LOVE isn’t listed first by accident.