The walk of the Christian's life is a walk of the practice of love, especially towards those born of God. It's no use doing great things or appearing to be a great figure if you don't love your brothers and your neighbor. Love is the Essence of God and the center of His Nature. Whoever has love has God, but whoever does not love has never seen Him or known Him. Love is mercy, it is patience, it is faith, it is forgiveness and sacrifice. Love is not the finger of judgment and accusation against the brothers, but mercy and denial of reason itself in favor of the Greater reason. No one is exempt from making mistakes and sinning while still on earth. Christianity simply does not exist without the practice of mercy and forgiveness. I'm not telling you to approve of error and connive with the works of darkness, but for you to practice forgiveness, with understanding, knowing that Christ Jesus our Lord is the only righteous one who ever was in the world, it's only His blood cleanses us from our sins. To love is to donate, it is to help, it is to support those who are in difficulties and tribulations. To love is not to condemn and finish killing those who are in error and darkness, but to teach the right path with forgiveness and patience. Those who are fallen need mercy, not the finger of judgment. The Church of our day has forgotten the greatest of all of Jesus' commandments to His people: "Love one another, as I have loved you." (John 13:34). The Church that does not practice love simply ceases to be the Church of Christ, because the foundation and basis of it is totally in love. The Christian who does not practice love has never seen God, but is just a adept of beliefs who has never been born again, nor does he have the life of Jesus. The Church that has not love has no power, nor can it influence the world, nor preach the Gospel, for "By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if ye have love one for another." (John 13:35). But if one brother hates the other brother, and they make wars and carnal disputes among themselves, there it is the Empire of Death that is dominating, and not the Kingdom of God. Because where there is hatred and disputes, there reigns destruction. Our victory does not come through the prevalence of our reason, but through submission to the truth. If the Word of God tells us that our salvation and righteousness come from Jesus alone, then when I judge and condemn a brother, I am not judging and condemning man, but Christ. If anyone makes a mistake, there is only one Our Advocate and Judge, the One who died and risen for us, the only one who can save and destroy. If a brother is suffering, needing food and providence for his needs, how will love dwell in me if I don't open my heart to help him in his tribulations? How can I say I have love if my eyes don't even see those who are walking in faith by my side as brothers? Or if I make discrimination and separation among those born of God, how will the truth be in me? The existence of the Church depends entirely on its unity, and the unity of the Church without the practice of love is impossible. It is my duty to be in complete unity and peace with all the saints of God, whose just and justifier is Christ Jesus our Lord, who purchased us with His perfect life, and to preserve for all the bond of peace and perfection which is the love. We are all one body, and members of one another. What would become of the body if all the members did not all act in favor of one another? What will become of the head if the feet refuse to walk? Or what will become of the hands if the eyes refuse to see? All the members need one another, and without unity there is no subsistence of the body. Every kingdom divided against itself will not stand, said the Lord (Matthew 12:25). The strength of the Church's unity and the meaning of the Christian's journey is love. It was love that constrained God our Father to send His Son into the world to bring us back to Himself. It was love that led Christ Jesus to abdicate His glory, to be born as a man, to lay down His innocent life for the salvation of all the redeemed. Love is the heart of truth. Whoever does not practice love is not in the truth, nor does he contain it. Love is selfless, and cares for the good of others, denying and caring as for itself on behalf of all who are in trouble. There is no room for selfishness and self-sufficiency among those who profess to know God. I will never accept having five loaves of bread if all my brothers each have only one. Love does not properly regard all the goods it possesses as its own, but everything is held in common, everything I have belongs to all my brothers in the faith, and if anyone needs anything, I will not keep what I have in my hands for me, for the Greatest Good that God, the possessor of the heavens possessed, His Own Son, was sacrificially given to me in love as an Eternal Heritage for my salvation and permanent abode in His Kingdom of Light. If the All of Eternity was graciously given to me, how can I deny my brother transient material goods, which do not even belong to me in fact? And if a brother is fallen, why am I going to judge him to finish destroying the one for whom Christ died? Brothers, let us practice love as Christians and as a Church, not only in words, but in deeds and in truth in fact. Whoever practices love and loves his brother is in the light, he has already entered into true life, and in him there is no darkness at all. Whoever practices love practices the truth, makes the true light shine, and manifests the greater design and perfect will of God for the world. Peace be with the brothers.
