Read John 13-15
John 13:35 says, "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another." You would think it would be easy to love those who believe as you do. They work beside you, live beside you, and worship beside you. The problem is, they don’t always act as they should.
It’s often easier to show love to strangers, to give to people we’ll never meet who are in need. When we hear of the suffering of folks around the world, we want to do whatever we can to help them through the ordeal.
But sometimes when the people we know are in need, we also know what they have been doing to cause their problems and don’t see them repenting of their actions, so we know they’ll keep repeating the cycle and always be in need. Still Jesus expects us to show love to our Christian brothers and sisters because that shows the world that God is living in us.
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