Any family where this kind of love is lacking is a jungle, just like these people who are living in the open dirty streets, trash heaps, and uninhabited buildings, are living in a jungle. The people in that family where no one can sacrifice for another in love are just like the people to whom we throw food and clothes and allow them to live in abandoned home, and we just pass them by. As we need more than providing the basic needs in the family, so the poor ones whom Christ regarded as himself need love, care, appreciation and acceptance.

Have you ever loved or felt loved, and I mean love without prejudice, that powerful feeling that runs in your veins and gives you the strong emotion that you are safe, accepted, and appreciated by another person, especially when you least expect it? This is the unalloyed love of Christ that salvaged us from sin and death to inherit life without end with God. They are asking us to care, accept, and appreciate them. Can you look straight into their eyes and assure them of the warm feelings they lack – feelings that are only basic life necessities.

Most of the time our answer to this question is shelter, clothing and food. It is an outstanding truth that these three basic life necessities are needed by every human being no matter the family background. Thank God that most of us have and enjoy these basics of life. Having acknowledged that, we still lack something crucial that lubricates the engine to prevent it from rusting. That is “LOVE”.

We can feed, shelter, and clothe someone without love because we do it as a responsibility or a paid job. We can do this even to people we hate or who are our enemies. But giving the life basics necessities with love is no longer human but living the life of Christ who gave up his divinity in obedience to his Father when He came and died for us, even when we were unworthy of the costly price he paid on Calvary.