Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up. It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful. It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. (1 Cor 13:4-8)
Now thats the kinda love we need to love everyone with! Now wait a minute! Are you telling me I need to love everyone like that? Even the crazy guy from work or the demented driver on the road! Surely not that dude whose aspiration is to see me mortified or my neighbour who thinks that freedom of speech refers to volume! Come on, you can't expect me to love the dude who makes sure he tells me about everything he is better than me at! No way!
Well, nobody said that it was easy, but remember this. There was somebody who loved all! The ones who betrayed HIM, the ones who denied HIM, the ones who spat on HIS face, the ones who stripped HIM, the ones who flogged HIM and even the ones who mortally wounded HIM. So it aint impossible!
John 13:34,35 says:
“I (Jesus) give you a new commandment – to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples – if you have love for one another.”
For that sake try to love one another! Inspite of the differences, inspite of spiteful words, inspite of conniving motives, inspite of partiality, inspite of violence, inspite of barbaric behaviour, inspite of unfairness, love one another. For by this everyone will know you and I belong to the almighty, all-powerful GOD of the universe.
Peace!
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