Gospel: Matthew 5: 43-48
God provides good things to all people. Rain and sun benefit everyone regardless of moral status, but it is not merely accidental causality. Jesus tells us that it is because God loves all of us whether we seek to be his friends or not that he provides these good things to everyone. God's goodness to us is not contingent on our goodness but only on God's love.
Jesus tells us that our love must be like God's. We are to love and provide good things to all people, friend and enemy. We are to turn no one aside in our work to provide good to all people. There are no worthiness tests or preconditions. We provide that good to others unconditionally and without discrimination.
How can we refuse charity to anyone when God has provided it for us all? How can we deny the ultimate good of communion with Jesus himself to others when he made himself available to and ate with all? To seek perfection is to seek to love all in the way God loves us all and provides good things to all people.
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