For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
1 John 3:11 KJV
I was talking with my husband about the importance of loving others and what love can do for us. You know that Peter taught that love covers a multitude of sin. You know we all sin ever day and fall short of God's glory, but if we continue in love for one another then God is just to forgive us of those sins. I am sure there are things in our lives that we may not even realize is a sin but when we love one another those things will be covered up, never to be remembered. If we are truly Christ's, then we are to keep his commandments. Jesus gave us a new commandment, that we love one another.
John 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
LOVE is very powerful, it will purify the soul like fire purifies gold. Gold when put through the fire comes out PURE. When we love one another our soul becomes PURE. Peter taught us the power of LOVE. Love will purify the soul!
1 Peter 1:22
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
Love is the key to so many things in life and the greatest thing is that by loving others we are showing Christ that we love him. Because the bible teaches us, how can we love God whom we have not seen if we can't love our brother whom we have seen.
1 John 4:20-21
20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
