God's Word is so alive! There are days when we can actually hear Him speak. Sometimes it is an uplifting, reassuring message and other times it is a convicting, humiliating message. His Word is alive and should be changing us, purifying us. Today's verses are the convicting ones. How can we claim to love God when we can't love our neighbor or our fellow Christian? Most all of us are guilty of judging and condemning those who do what we don't like or rub us the wrong way, we just don't like them. God doesn't say we have to like everyone, He says we must love them. Show respect, kindness, compassion even during disagreements. To love someone means to look past their faults and show them the love that Christ has shown us, people who are full of faults too! Who are you failing to love, ask God to help you love them the way Christ does.
1 John 4:20-21 NIV
20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
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