STATUS AN AFRICAN EXPEREINCE AND STRUGGLE TOWARDS ACCEPTANCE AND REJECTION

Don't you Love that word?

As you can see from the poem down I have had a lot of experience with this word.Here in America, they use it in many ways. I used it to convey a message about what is called, "tough love." I think tough love is a love that will continue to belive in you even when you fail. Many people told me that tough love is being tough on another person "so that he would get it." I do not think so, the biblical image of tough love is a love that persevers even the object of love is so "unlovable." Do you feel not to love someone, sometimes? We are called to give love even to those who are not so loveable? Then, if you are the followers of Christ you will decide to love them, anyways. I just have been through in the worst test of my life. I see through that pruning God helped me to see the goods of people regardless of their mess. I am not talking about positive faith. I am talking about a will that decides to love the most worst person, or the most hurting person regardles of what they have done to us and themselves. Ooooooh God help us!




STATUS
I heard that word many times.
In a hard and good way:
I was in Asia: my Status was “Alien”
I was in Ethiopia my STATUS was Citizen
I was with my dad my STATUS was a "disowned Son"
Then I met with God and I was called, "SON"
Then I came to America I am called “Immigrant,”
Or
‘the African with an Accent”
Or“the Naturalized…”
I have seen many statuses in my life
But of all that matters is my status with Jesus“JUSTIFIED,”“SON,”“Friend,”“Family Member”and so on….
I love my status with Jesus
I know he loves me regardless
I know he is shaping me
Because my status matters to him
I am soooooo special to him

But I have a question for you my brother:What is my STATUS with you?
Am I still loved by you?
Am I really your “BROTHER?"
I have a question for you my sister?What is my STATUS with you?
I wonder sometimes if my sin shadowed the Jesus in me?
That is not meant to be
Because Jesus has defeated sin forever.
I hope my status with you is a winner STATUS
But I want to tell you one thing:Your STATUS with me has not been changed
Knowingly or unknowingly you might have hurt me
The devil might have used that hurt to try to tear me
I have spent many nights crying nights
Because of the hurt of friends
But I have decided one thing
Whatever you might have done to me
You are still loved by me
Do not run away
Do not avoid me
Because your STATUS is the same with me
Even though my STATUS might have changed with you
I still love you
Even though the pain I have been through is so bitterYou will always remain my brother;
You will always remain my sister;
Your STATUS will never change
I pray again to see Jesus in you
My STATUS with him be reveled to you.
But until that happens you always remain LOVED : RESPECTED:
My commitment to you remains unchanged
One more time let me ask you
My beloved brother and my beloved sister:What is my STATUS with you??????

Workiyeee