I John 3:11 This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
There you have it friends, the answer to the world’s problems, “We should love one another.” The concept is so simple even a group of boys from Liverpool had it figured out. Remember just about the only words in the Beatles hit song, All You Need is Love, are; “all you need is love.”
So where does, or should, it start? Well it started with God, but it is carried on, or not, by each and every one of us. Now let me give you, again, my definition of love, “To seek one another’s highest good.” That definition did not come from me, I don’t know who first coined the phrase, but I got it from a man named Abe Lincoln, a preacher and teacher from the Sunset School of Preaching back in the dark ages of the 1970’s. What those simple words imply is that if every person thought about what was best for the other person before thinking of themselves, the world would run in complete peace.
You want peace within yourself? Don’t try to live two lives, one for God, and one for yourself.
You want a peaceful marriage? Don’t live for yourself, live with the mindset that your spouse comes before you. Learn what makes them happy, learn what their “Love Language” is, (The Five Love Languages, by Dr. Gary Chapman) and live that language.
You want a great relationship with your children? Be their parent. Teach them through example what love, respect, discipline, responsibility, and character are, while living the definition of love.
Living, “seeking one another’s highest good,” means living an open book. Never do anything that you wouldn’t want your kids, your spouse, or your God to know about. Is living this kind of life easy? No! Not if you’re human because humans are selfish. We love ourselves first by nature. So how can we expect to live a life of true love? By giving ourselves to God, and then with His help, living the kind of love He lives.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Till next time,
Grump