By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. John 13:35
Ordinarily, there is no
big deal in this except when you realise one of His commandments you must keep
is to turn the other cheek to the one who slaps you. This is hard. It is hard
to have the capacity and resources to carry out revenge but refrain from doing
so because of your faith in Jesus Christ. When some Christians found themselves
in such situations, they wept as when they saw a rat biting the tail of a cat
but the cat could not do anything.
Also, John 13:35 says: we should love one
another as Christ has loved us. This is a difficult task because among those we
are told to love are unlovable people. How do you love a so-called brother or
sister who is constantly doing everything to provoke you and cause your
downfall? How do you love a so-called leader who is a traitor and who
discriminates against you? How do you love a pastor who sits on your progress
for several years and warns you not to tell his superiors? It is hard. Yet, you
have to love them because of Heaven. You have to love and forgive them or else
you have gotten to your final bus stop in your Christian race.
Additionally, Psalms 97:10
says if you love the Lord, you must hate evil. To most Christians, that appears
like what they regularly do until they isolate some cases and find out that they
are not truly keeping this commandment. Some Christian parents see their
children dress improperly and dismiss it with a wave of the hand saying: “Don’t
mind her: she is being childish”, yet they do nothing about it. What of wives
who dress in seductive manners, virtually showing to the world that they are”
available for sale”, yet their husbands cannot caution them? Or what of prayer
point the Lord gave to all believers in Matthew 5:43-45? Do you know that based
on this command, we should be praying for all our enemies daily? Did I hear an
Amen? Not for the enemies to fall down and die but for God to open their eyes
to know the truth and become converted. How many people are keeping this
commandment today?
PRAYER POINT:
Lord, no matter how hard
it is, for as long as you commanded me to obey Your Word, grant me grace to
obey without complaining.
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