24 days left [raining]

I woke up at 5am this morning, because our alarm system went off. It was just my dad leaving, but maybe he pressed a wrong button? I went back to sleep and woke up again at 8am by my alarm clock. Ever wake up with a headache? I did. Shortly after I woke up, I drove my grandma to work, and watched 2012 when I came back home. I really didn't want to watch it, but my grandma rented it so I figured might as well. I'm generally not into dooms day movies, but I didn't think it was bad. The whole time I was imagining what it would be like for unbelievers during the end times. The effects were intense, and I knew I definitely didn't want to be around when God pours His wrath on the world. The movie actually had a hopeful happy ending, but in the end times, unbelievers will not. No "ark" can save them from the wrath of God.

For several days now, I've been stressed and annoyed by certain people, unbelievers quite in fact, at how they live their lives. But after watching 2012, I was reminded at their fate if they so choose not to repent. There's no point in being angry at how they conduct their lives, but instead I should show them God's love all the more. I thought of giving up on certain people, and letting them just do whatever they want. Besides, they'll get what they deserve in the end anyway. But God calls Christians to be compassionate, just as He was compassionate on us while were yet sinners. Though I cannot control how people live their lives, my attitude towards them should not be "fine, you'll get what you deserve in the end." For a brief moment, I forgot that we are always called to love. It is not up to us who to love and when to love. We must show love to every one at all times.
"By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." - John 13:35

What I read in my devotion also ties in with my realization. As Christians, we are called to a life of abandonment, a life of full surrender to do God's will. In my devo today, though, it talked about the abandonment of God. The key verse was the ever so familiar John 3:16, "God so loved the world that He gave..." Here's an excerpt from what I read:
"Salvation is not merely deliverance from sin, nor the experience of personal holiness; the salvation of God is deliverance out of self entirely into union with Himself. John 3:16 means that God gave Himself absolutely. In our abandonment we give ourselves over to God just as God gave Himself for us, without any calculations."

That's pretty intense if you ask me, and quite a challenge. Nonetheless, it is the truth, and something I must strive for every day.