However Claims To Love God Yet Hates A Brother Or Sister Is A Liar

1 JOHN 4:20-21
“If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.
”‭‭I John‬ ‭4:20-21‬ ‭NKJV‬
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To love someone is a choice; it is easy to love when their is no cost involved.
It is easy to love God when it doesn’t cost more than a weekly attendance to church. But the real test of our love for God is in how we respond in obedience to God’s word and how we treat others; our spouses, children, family members, fellow believers, work colleagues, and even strangers.
If you really love God who you cannot see, you will also love those who God created in His image, all those you can see.
God’s word is full of do’s and don’t’s which every committed believer agrees to. But sadly, many pick and choose the do’s and don’t’s that suits them and ignore the rest.
Many say, “this is my body, I can do what I like;” but actually it is not (1 CORINTHIANS 6:19-20), and with that attitude one breaks the very covenant he or she made with God; it is rebellion against God.
His word gives us clear instruction how to live in every circumstance, whether single or married, husband or wife, whether a father, a mother, or even a child. It’s all in the Book, but so many choose to ignore the instructions they don’t like and wonder why life goes round and round to the same old troubles; financial problems, relationship issues, brokenness, lack of peace and joy and a life of anxiety and depression.
Life goes up and down like a yo-yo. But the truth is, the problem is not God or His word, the problem is in “me” or “I.”
Remove the “I” from your alphabet and make God your number one. Without the letter “I” there’s no me, no anxiety, nor pride to steal our love for God and others. Love is selfless and comes at a cost. “Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
‭‭I Corinthians‬ ‭13:4-7‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
God’s whole way of life is based on love; Jesus said, ‘You shall love the Lord Your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets (MATHEW 22:37-40).”
To love your neighbor as yourself including your enemies is selflessy caring for them; providing the needs they cannot provide for themselves. This is a commandment and a part of the covenant you made with God (Mathew 5:43-48; LUKE 6:27-36).
God’s selfless love works; it builds relationships, strengthens marriage, brings unity, and peace within families and communities. But to experience it’s fruits, one must operate in it according to God’s word without waver.
By choosing to love others, you are expressing your love for Christ. We won’t all agree with one another, or like the behaviour of some, but we can choose to love them who God created; we can love the person, hating the sin within them; and by the way, we are all sinners, If not, Jesus would of had no reason to take our place on a cross.
Jesus hates the sin within us, but loves us so much that He chose to give up His life to save us. Their is no greater love than when one lays down his life for another (JOHN 15:13).
If only everyone could obey these two great commandments, to love one another selflessly and unconditionally, just as Christ loves us, this world would immediately become a better place to live.
To love is more than a simple feeling, it is a choice, an action, that comes from a decision, and a way of life, Jesus way. ”Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.“
‭‭I Corinthians‬ ‭13‬:‭1‬-‭5‬, ‭7‬-‭8‬, ‭10‬-‭13‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
All glory to God forever and ever! Amen.