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Then he began to scold the cities where he had done his greatest miracles because they didn’t change their hearts and lives. “How terrible it will be for you, Chorazin! How terrible it will be for you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles done among you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have changed their hearts and lives and put on funeral clothes and ashes a long time ago. But I say to you that Tyre and Sidon will be better off on Judgment Day than you. And you, Capernaum, will you be honored by being raised up to heaven? No, you will be thrown down to the place of the dead. After all, if the miracles that were done among you had been done in Sodom, it would still be here today. But I say to you that it will be better for the land of Sodom on the Judgment Day than it will be for you.” (Matthew 11:20-24, CEB)

What change did these cities not have? Right before this Jesus says that this generation is like a child crying out who didn’t get their way, or that they did something according to the way it had always been done and people did not respond the correct way. Going from that, would make me think that the change that didn’t happen was focusing on others.

We have a set of rules to follow and those help us maintain a godly way, yet they have us focusing on our actions and not our motives. We are focused on keeping the status quo and not the need of the other.

And that was the sin of Sodom, they were not hospitable to the stranger. And had the miracles done in Chorazin and Bethsaida been done in Sodom, Sodom would have been hospitable.

Are you loving others, or trying to keep the rules?

Loving People. Loving God.