The key to loving people and treating them the way God wants us to treat them lies in what we value. If you just try to be more friendly, it probably won’t change your behavior much. But if you change what you value and how you look at people, that will have an automatic change in your behavior long term. This passage will help shape those values.


Excerpt #1
Everything in the world is mine. Whether it’s a car or a mansion or a mountain or an ocean – it’s all mine. I may not have the keys just yet, but the title is in my name. So why be impressed with those who temporarily have the keys, but don’t have the title? Imagine an orphan who has been adopted into the family of a billionaire, and he is one week away from all the papers being signed and moving into the big mansion. One week away – but when the day comes, he is nowhere to be found. He was so envious of his friends who had skateboards and video games and all kinds of things that he never had, he decided to run away from his foster home and try to pursue some of those things. That is what we are like when we lose sight of our inheritance and we become impatient and go running after the world’s trinkets. When you see someone who is rich in this world, don’t envy them. Feel sorry for them because their riches are so small. When you hear about somebody winning the lottery, you can think, “I won the lottery, too. The only difference is, the jackpot I got is so much bigger than the one he got – poor guy. He only gets his temporarily and then it will all be taken away. But I get mine forever.”

Excerpt #2:
This Sunday at church, greet at least two different people with Hebrews 13:2 in mind (showing hospitality with the possibility in mind that it could be an angel).