Saturday, May 29, 2021
From the Beginning
For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: we should love one another . . .
For this is the message we carry into the world: we must love one another, even – or perhaps especially – our enemies.
Do not be amazed, then, if the world hates you . . .
We are not amazed, then, when the world condemns us.
Whoever does not love remains in death . . .
Whoever loves those who hate him remains in life eternally.
The way we came to know love was that he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers . . .
The way we come to know love is to enact it. The way we come to know hope is to give it.
Children, let us not love in word or speech but in deed and truth . . .
Sisters and brothers, let us not love in what we say but in what we do.
For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: we should love one another . . .
Spend some time today with the four selected versions of this citation in the scripture link above. Choose another version from the drop down menus and ponder what we have heard from the beginning, what we know, and how we enact God’s love in the world.
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