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"One Another"

Last Sunday we examined the 99 scripture references that include the "one another" commands. These are the commands given that instruct believers on how to treat one another. Various instructions including: live at peace, love, be of the same mind, encourage, forgive, be kind, etc. Of the 99 verses, the command to love one another occurs over 15 times. Therefore, this command proves significant. In fact, Christ said in Matthew 26:36-40
"'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.'"
Our second greatest commandment is to love one another. Upon examining the love verses, one discovers that this is only possible when you follow Christ's example and understand God's love. For example,
John 13:34 "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another."
1 John 4:7 "Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God."
1 John 4:11-12 "Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us."
Believers share an incredible privilege of living in love for one another, reflecting the perfect love of our Heavenly Father and Savior. By understanding the richness of Christ's love I can love others.

I pray you may know God's deep love for you. As Paul prayed in Ephesians 3:14-21,
"For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God."

All my love,
Gennavieve

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