John 13:34-35
34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
I have two songs lyrics stuck in my head right now. One is “What the world needs now is love sweet love. It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of.” The other one is, “And they’ll know we are Christians, by our love, by our love. And they’ll know we are Christians by our love.” So let me ask you something, do they know you are a Christian?
Our pastor recently taught on love and how it is messy. The idea of loving someone seems so easy until you come to the love part. It is kind of like people always saying you are still in the honeymoon phase of your relationship. Love doesn’t really happen until you have to show it!
This brings me to a favorite seen in one of my favorite movies, Yours, Mine, and Ours. Henry Fonda is helping his pregnant and in labor wife (Lucille Ball) down the steps while explaining to his teenage daughter what love is. Her boyfriend has been pressuring her to have sex ‘because they are in love.’ Henry tells her, “It’s giving life that counts. Until you’re ready for it, all the rest is just a big fraud. All the crazy haircuts in the world won’t keep it turning. Life isn’t a love-in – it’s the dishes, and the orthodontist, and the shoe repairman, and… ground round instead of roast beef. And I’ll tell you something else: It isn’t going to a bed with a man that proves you’re in love with him; it’s getting up in the morning and facing the drab, miserable, wonderful everyday world with him that counts!
Showing up on Sunday doesn’t prove you are a Christian. It is the everyday love you hand our even when you are tired, exhausted, angry, or hurt. It is showing
up and loving everyone Monday through Sunday. That is what really counts.
Lord, help me show love always and to everyone. I want them to know I am a Christian by my love! ~amen
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