I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride.
William James (1842-1910, American psychologist, professor, author)
John 13:34-35
"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. "By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another." NASU
I have heard that often much more planning goes into the wedding, than goes into the marriage. One is ceremony and the other, a serious relationship. I am afraid that has also been the attitude of many that join the Church today. It is mostly ceremony, done for the Church, without any commitment to relationships with others in the family of God.
Jesus commanded us to love one another in John 13:34. In 1 Thessalonians 4:9, Paul says that we were taught by God to love one another, and in 1 Peter 1:22, the apostle tells us to love one another “fervently,” and from the heart. John goes so far as to say in 1 John 4:7-8 that everyone who loves is born of God and knows God, and the one who does not love, does not know God, for God is love.
What is this love we are to have for one another? It is a self-sacrificing love. Jesus tells us to love one another, even as I have loved you. This is a serious and committed love. It is one that knows that real love is a commitment that comes at a price, which you are willing to pay. It is these tiny capillaries of love working in the Body of Christ that will break hearts of stone, and call all men unto Him…God Bless.
Pastor William
William James (1842-1910, American psychologist, professor, author)
John 13:34-35
"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. "By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another." NASU
I have heard that often much more planning goes into the wedding, than goes into the marriage. One is ceremony and the other, a serious relationship. I am afraid that has also been the attitude of many that join the Church today. It is mostly ceremony, done for the Church, without any commitment to relationships with others in the family of God.
Jesus commanded us to love one another in John 13:34. In 1 Thessalonians 4:9, Paul says that we were taught by God to love one another, and in 1 Peter 1:22, the apostle tells us to love one another “fervently,” and from the heart. John goes so far as to say in 1 John 4:7-8 that everyone who loves is born of God and knows God, and the one who does not love, does not know God, for God is love.
What is this love we are to have for one another? It is a self-sacrificing love. Jesus tells us to love one another, even as I have loved you. This is a serious and committed love. It is one that knows that real love is a commitment that comes at a price, which you are willing to pay. It is these tiny capillaries of love working in the Body of Christ that will break hearts of stone, and call all men unto Him…God Bless.
Pastor William
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