Greetings Dear Reader,
When we talk about technology or construction we know that
there are standards by which we measure what is good work and what is not. When we cook there are standards. You do not want to add too much salt or not
enough seasoning. There are benchmarks that measure quality on almost everything.
If we hope to follow Christ there is a benchmark that is the
outward evidence of us doing it. We are
to love others in the same way and degree that Christ loves us. We are supposed to be known for our love.
We should be so good at this that we are held up as the
standard of how to love people. Instead
we have so much infighting that we have hived off into many denominations. Division squanders resources that could be
used for the other things we are supposed to be about. We divide over things that do not matter keeping
us from working together on things that do.
We are required to love each other. It is the way in which the Father operates. It is my obligation to love everyone. The minute I look for exceptions to that requirement
I have abandoned the spirit if not the letter of it. I have forsake the command to love for some
lesser position of my own devising.
If I put my focus on loving others then I will be moved to take
care of the other things that identify me as a Christ follower. There is no good reason to refuse to love
others. It is the benchmark of the
Christ follower. It is the foundation of
all that God commands.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer
who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home
owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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