In the Bible, we are told to love our neighbor as ourselves. Who is our neighbor and what does this mean?
Our neighbor is not just the person living next to us, but it is also anyone we come in contact with. You may be wondering what does that mean. How can our neighbor be anyone we come in contact with?
We are supposed to be representatives of Christ and Christ loved everyone. They only way we can represent Him now is to love everyone as well. This does not mean that Christ accepted people as they were and frequently told them to go and sin no more.
In today’s world we have confused love with acceptance or like. Do not confuse love with like or acceptance. There are plenty of things my mom and dad did not like when I did it, but they still loved me. There are things my wife does not like, but she still loves me. There are things that God does not like what I do or say, but He still loves me.
I mention all of this because there are certain forces that are trying to get us humans to go against each other. If this happens, those forces win because that is more souls that are potentially not going to Heaven.
So I urge each and everyone of you to put aside your differences and accept that you are all not going to think or believe what others think and believe. Instead, pray for them and love them anyway.
This is love is not a conditional love such as I will love them, if they only love me. Instead it is an unconditional one that even if they hate you, you still love and pray for them.
This will not be easy because most of us feel that it goes against our very core, but that is not true. We feel like it go against our being because we have been listening and believing what the wrong side has been telling us for too long.
So while I urge you to pray, I also urge you to seek God. Why? Because when we draw closer to God, He draws closer to Him. Also, when we seek Him, it becomes increasingly more difficult for Satan to influence our lives because we will know the truth.