Love One Another

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us. He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 1 John 4:7-12 

We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. 1 John 4:19-21

Be imitators of God, therefore as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Ephesians 5:1-2

And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another. 2 John 5

It is pretty easy to love those you like but very difficult to love those who irritate you, do you injustice, or hurt you in any way. Think about these verses, they don’t say only love those you like. Do you think they apply to your neighbors, your friends, your school mates? We, as humans, sometimes make quick decisions about those around us. Sometimes we are quite surprised when someone we didn’t like before does something good and you change your mind about them. How about trying to love all others? How about praying for those you dislike?

This is my command: Love each other. John 15:17

Prayer: Dear Father in Heaven, be with us as we go about our days. Let us see the difference in others when we show love to all. Amen. 

 Sandra Hilsabeck