Too Unclean?

Acts 10:13 And there came a voice to him: “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.” 14 But Peter said, “By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.” 15 And the voice came to him again a second time, “What God has made clean, do not call common.” 16 This happened three times, and the thing was taken up at once to heaven.
Acts 10: 28 And he said to them, “You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with or to visit anyone of another nation, but a God has shown me that I should not call any person common or unclean

Last year I was blessed to go to New Delhi, India to work with some Indian brothers in sharing the Good news of Christ. While the trip was the toughest 10 days of my life, it taught me many lessons I will never forget. Appreciating my Blesser and His blessings were made easier than ever after viewing chaotic darkness in 120 degree heat for 8 days. When I got back some weird things happened. I was asked by a close friend, "Why would you want to go to India?" as if I was crazy or something. People really did not understand that I went because God led me to go and tell of His son Jesus the Christ. What was simple obedience to the Great commission in my life was viewed by many as a crazy idea by most. They did not state this directly, but there dialogue and expressions gave away the fact that a bunch of Indians going to hell just weren't as important as their routines. What seemed to me as a no-brainer response to God seemed to them as a laughable waste of time. It seemed maybe they didn't put much value on the lives and souls of the people we ministered to. God does.

Peter went through this same battle in Acts 10. God clearly spells it out to Him and tells Him " I decide who is worth ministering to Peter, not You, and the gentiles need to hear about ME. Your job is to go when sent." You can almost hear the spiritual dialogue of the Spirit reminding Him of the only real cleanliness that Peter has was Christ's doing, not his own. Peter responded in obedience and people were saved as a result. Gentile people. People who society looked down on as unclean and worthless.

What is your view? Are you too clean, and too busy to hear God's call? Are there just some people who are so far beneath you that you are just too good to love them?

If that was Christ's heart, we would all be shut out as sinned has stained us all. I believe we all need to evaluate our hearts and do some hard core repenting right in through here.....