You may not like it but Christ died and came to save everyone including the one who hates you BUT YOU ARE STILL CALLED TO LOVE THEM....... 

What Manner of LOVE is this?

If you could whisper, "I can live without the presence of God in my life," it is no different than shouting, "I CAN LIVE WITHOUT THE PRESENCE OF GOD IN MY LIFE!"

What a sad indictment......  
How most pitiful are you......
How dark and deep is your understanding of the love of God that took depths, leaps, and bounds to have fellowship with YOU........
It is no different than loving someone that does not love you..........

He LOVED you SO much that He left heaven to gather us like a hen does with her chicks. His name, "IMMANUEL--God is with us!"

"He was bruised for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought our peace, and with his stripes we are healed," Isaiah 53:5. (ESV)

REJECTING THE LOVE OF GOD is no different than those who......
despised him and rejected him--a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.  It's no different than turning our backs on Jesus and looking the other way.  He was despised and we didn't care.  YET......

IT WAS OUR WEAKNESSES HE CARRIED; IT WAS OUR SORROWS THAT WEIGHED HIM DOWN.  AND WE THOUGHT HIS TROUBLES WERE A PUNISHMENT FROM GOD, A PUNISHMENT FOR HIS OWN SINS!

BUT HE WAS PIERCED FOR OUR REBELLION, CRUSHED FOR OUR SINS.  HE WAS BEATEN SO WE COULD BE WHOLE.  HE WAS WHIPPED SO WE COULD BE HEALED.

He was counted among the rebels.  He bore the sins of many and interceded for rebels.

WHAT MANNER OF LOVE IS THIS THAT YOU MAN, WOMAN OR CHILD CAN CONSCIOUSLY REJECT?

IT'S THE LOVE YOU SEARCH YOUR ENTIRE LIFE TO TRY AND FIND....

UNUSUAL BUT A GIFT NONETHELESS.......

I PRAY YOU THINK ON THESE THINGS, EACH TIME YOU LOOK FOR LOVE IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES. I PRAY YOU THINK ON THESE THINGS WHILE YOU GAZE UPON YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE.  

HOW NOW MORE THAN EVER CAN ONE'S CHRISTMAS BE MERRY IF NOT HAVING RECEIVED TRULY THE MOST PRECIOUS AND THE MOST EXPENSIVE GIFT NOT PURCHASED OR MANUFACTURED BUT GIVEN FROM GOD TO US......

EVERY GOOD AND PERFECT GIFT COMES FROM ABOVE AND HE BEGAN BY LOVING US SO MUCH THAT HE GAVE THE LIFE OF HIS SON, JESUS CHRIST THAT WE COULD BE COUNTED RIGHTEOUS IN HIS SIGHT!

THE GIFT OF SALVATION  NO, IT WAS NOT THE MOST BEAUTIFULLY PACKAGED AND IT WAS NOT THE MOST MAJESTIC IN APPEARANCE BUT IT WAS THE MOST PERFECT GIFT GOD COULD EVER GIVE HUMANITY WRAPPED IN DIVINITY AND FLESH AND SEALED WITH HIS LOVE! 

OH WHAT MANNER OF LOVE IS THIS?