Now Timothy has returned to us from you and has given us good news about your faithfulness and love! He says that you always have good memories about us and that you want to see us as much as we want to see you. Because of this, brothers and sisters, we were encouraged in all our distress and trouble through your faithfulness. For now we are alive if you are standing your ground in the Lord. How can we thank God enough for you, given all the joy we have because of you before our God? Night and day, we pray more than ever to see all of you in person and to complete whatever you still need for your faith. Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus guide us on our way back to you. May the Lord cause you to increase and enrich your love for each other and for everyone in the same way as we also love you. May the love cause your hearts to be strengthened, to be blameless in holiness before our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his people. Amen. (1 Thessalonians 3:6-13, CEB)
In the world around us today it seems that hate is on the rise. There is conflict and genocide. People holding other people back because they don’t fit the mold of what they think people should be.
And here Paul writes the Thessalonicans, “May the Lord cause you to increase and enrich your love for each other and for everyone in the same way as we also love you.” Increase your love for each other and everyone as Paul and Timothy and God have love for them. As God has love for you, you should love everyone.
God’s love for you is unconditional and limitless. According to the Law and the Bible, we have done so many things to keep us from God, and yet, because God created you, God loves you. That is how we should love others, every other person. Without limit.
Not when they fit the mold for what we think people should be, we love them because God created them. Period.
Loving People. Loving God.
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