Love

The first reading in today’s gospel is full of reminders about love..

we should love one another,

Yes, we should. Regardless of the person. No IF’s, no BUT’s. As followers of Christ, this is one of the most important things we should learn and do – love one another, especially those unlovable, just as Christ did.

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer

and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him

Such strong words. Hate can cause bad actions, evil actions.. like Cain who belonged to the evil one, killed his own brother. When we hate others, we also are being affected by it. It angers us, stresses us out, ruins our mood. It can move us sin, thus losing eternal life with God in the process. The best “Revenge” for someone we “hate” is to love him/her back. In the process, we change the person and we are being changed to be more like Christ. Everybody happy =)

The way we came to know love
was that he laid down his life for us

Christmas. Christ came as a man to save us… more importantly, he died and rose again to save us from our sins. Pure love. We cant love like that, but we can and should be inspired by that love of Christ for us.

Children, let us love not in word or speech
but in deed and truth.

When we say we love, we should act it out, we should live it out. Lip service is not enough.

The gospel shows that love brings people to God. As we love others, especially the unlovable, we may not know or feel it, but we are bringing that person to God, and we are bringing God to that person. And this is something that makes it well worth it.

Live to love!

God bless!