“It has been said, an eye for and eye or s tooth for a tooth, but I say…”. What did Jesus say?  He said things like love you enemies.  Pray for your enemies.  Don’t just go one mile, but go two.  Forgive seven times? No, seventy times seven.  Jesus brought us the idea of radical love.  Love not just for those who do or can love us, but for all people.  For all people are God’s children.

We can see and read and even understand how Jesus loved and realize our call to go and do likewise.  Its even easy to see a situation and ask, WWJD?  Knowing the answer is often easy too.  But the actual living out of Jesus’ radical love is a bit harder.

At times we stop and ask, ” Really? Love him or her?” Maybe another times its, “Next time, I’m busy now”.  This is just one example of how we struggle and one of how we rationalize not loving radically.

Yet if we take the second look into his or her eyes or if we feel the empathy for the one we are about to walk on by, then we begin to take that first step that Jesus took.  We don’t always follow through, we don’t always walk in His footsteps.  But once we do, then we begin to know the path to radical love a little bit better.  And before we know it, our feet fit pretty well in His footprints.  And we come to realize that, just like walking, we offer radical love one step at a time!

Scripture reference: New Testament