Love God? Love your brother!

Gerry

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1 John 4:21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

We all get so busy preaching, teaching, evangelizing, and do all manner of service to Jesus. Because of this we tend to omit a very important commandment in the above Scripture.

We objest to that accusation, and insist that we do indeed love our brother. But that is because we think of love as an emotional feeling, and a passive one at that.

But that is not the kind of love spoken of by Jesus. The love of Jesus is an inspired love of action. When we truly love Jesus, we act on that love. We do things to express that love through some form of service.

If we love our brother, we will show it in our actions. We will express it through our service. Telling our brother we love him is a form of action in itself. But perhaps the least important, because our treatment of that brother will speak louder than any words.