Love One Another
We have been commanded by Christ to “Love One Another” (John 13:34).
A few years ago, this was shown to me in a real and powerful way. It was a time in my life that I was questioning everything I had known. Two men from my past, two men to my knowledge that do not even know each other. These two men, who I was not even in regular contact with, these men independently sent messages to me that displayed God’s Love for me. In doing so, they fulfilled at least three of the “One Another’s” found in the New Testament.
As my life as I knew it was falling apart, the first sent me a simple message that “the Lord had brought me to his heart, and that all that week he had been praying for me.” James 5:16 tells us to “Pray for one another.” By doing so, he encouraged me. (1 Thessalonians 5:11). I needed that, and the fact that I had felt so alone at this time gave me comfort. (1 Thessalonians 4:18)
Months later, I am really feeling alone. I am in a room with a whole lot of people who had come to pass judgment on me (Romans 14:13). What was interesting to me was that not a single one of them ever even asked me what was going on; where the only person in the room I did not know leaned over and said to me “You don’t have a single friend in this room, do you?” During all that, I received an IM from another man that simply said, “I do not know what’s going on right now, but the Holy Spirit just drove me to my knees to pray for you.” When I received this, I felt that part of the weight of my burden had been lifted from me. (Galatians 6:2). This also encouraged me and gave me comfort in a hostile room.
Thousands of miles apart, two men who did not know each other sent me a simple message. “I prayed for you,” and in doing so, showed me the Love of God in a very real way. They encouraged me, they comforted me, and through prayer, they helped me bear my burden.
John 13:34–35: A new commandment I give to you is that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another. By this, all people will know that you are my disciples if you have Love for one another.”
When you are praying for someone…you are practicing the purest form of Love.
Please pay(pray) this forward.
In the Love that only Christ can give.
