learning a little

I am part of this home church called Remnant Community, and it has been amazing. First to grow alongside people and friends of my own age, but also be challenged by questions and my walk with God. As one of our weekly devotions, we were challenged to go on a walk/ or to the beach by ourselves and be still in the presence of God and listen to His quiet voice. I was in awe of the beauty of the ocean and the scenery around me and was quite thankful for the nature that He created. I was also reminded that we walk past His most prized creation (human being) and we don't even think twice about giving Him thanks for what He cherishes most. I was humbled by that fact and forced to look around at the different people surrounding me and thought that each person here was created in the image of God. It was a crazy thought and it still blows my mind. I then thought about the fact that loving people is what I love to do, and I think I have been given the gift of serving/loving people, because it comes naturally to me. And as I was thinking about this, a guy with dreads past his butt walked right by me and I thought to myself, oh hey, that guy is probably a pot-smoking, loser guy that doesn't know anything about God or want to have anything to do with life, and that's when God told me, Katie did you really just say that. Here you are thinking that you are good at loving people and you take one look at a person and immediately judge him. I was completely shocked. At that moment God told me that I still have some working to do in regards to loving people, and accepting them for who they are. I mean, I have dreads and that guy probably thought the exact same thing of me, so who am I to judge? God you always keep me in check!