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12 “This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. 17 This I command you, that you love one another. John 15:12-17
We all have choices we make every day on how we are going respond to other people. Maybe you have that really irritating person that just won't stop talking and continues to draw the conversation to what is going with them. Or you have those people that are attacking other people on social media even though they do not have an inkling of the truth, but just want to take a side against someone, kind of like the mob mentality. Maybe you have that person who constantly asks the same question over and over again, or you have those people who are supposed to know what they are doing, but they have zero clue on how to handle things. We have a choice on how we will respond to people. A lot of times our first thought might be to lash out, or comment to those people that are hurting others. Then again, you might think, it is better not to say anything so things don't cause a big uproar. Maybe we ought to see what God's command was in this verse. If we love others like he loves us, think of the change we could make. Remember God chooses us. Let that sink in a minute. If God loves us enough to choose us, sinners, then shouldn't we choose to love those around us and not berate them, beat them down, and treat them horribly? Choose the right kind of love, the forgiving love that is given to us by our Father in Heaven.
Have a great weekend.
Matt
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