11This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
12Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous.
13Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.
14We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death.
15Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.
16This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
17If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
18Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
19This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence
20whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
21Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God
22and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him.
23And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.
24Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
I was reading this passage along with my devotions yesterday, and it was talking about how we should love someone now matter what they do. if they are un loving, annyoing or anything. well it was put in the camp perspective but i begin to think about it in the mission filed. How we as teams are going to be living toghther and working togther and we will get on each others nerves, but now matter what we have to be willing to love one another and build each other up. Also it asked a question about what is the world’s view on love and what is the lord’s view on love. well the ansewr i thought of was world view is this it is more of a feeling and an emotion where as spiritual love is in action. If we love others then we love christ. my prayer is that now matter what we will love each other and build each other up. Lord help me to be loving to my teammates and help me to just build them up and be there in their time of need. help us to have unity amongest us.
I used this one today, love your neighbor as yourself. This is a struggle as I god locked out this evening. She told me she left the door open, I had to get Pam to come from home and she didn’t even check the door so am feeling very hurt. I need to meditate on this scripture. Thank you so very much.
Closing now, I can hardly keep my eyes open and my back is killing me.
God bless you for this message.
Grandma
2007
Wow i think that’s one of the hardest lessons for us to learn as Christians