John 13:34-35, A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
The characteristics of genuine, spiritual love are found in 1 Cor. 13:1-8. If those characteristics are missing in our lives, we’re just a “sounding brass” and “a tinkling cymbal”.
We may say; “Well, I love them in the Lord.” Do we love them regardless of how they treat us, or how we feel about them? More than once I’ve had to ask the Lord to help me love a “hard-to-love” person.
So, do you love the brethren? Do you have a hunger for the things of the Lord? Do you love His Word, His people, His church? Do you possess a desire for holiness and a hatred for sin? These are signs of being a disciple of God.
If you are not His disciple, believe in the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ for your soul’s salvation? I pray that the Spirit of God will draw you to Him.
1 John 3:18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
