Take a look in the mirror

TEXT: Do you love Jesus Christ?

• No answer
• Another text (later)
• No answer

So what is a brother or sister in Christ to think?  Are you too busy for just a simple answer to a genuine communication in love?

Maybe you think: I have other things to do… or when that number comes up on your cell: “I won’t answer that.  I don’t want to talk to him (or her).”

Is that your idea of what you look like when you say that you are a Christian?

Do you really think that is what Jesus Christ expects from those who ‘claim’ His Name by calling ourselves: christians?

Perhaps it’s time to take an honest look in the mirror of your Christianity?

John 13:34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

The word used three times in just one verse – a commandment of our Lord Christ Jesus – agapaō

of persons: to welcome, to entertain, to be fond of, to love dearly

I don’t know about you, but I see no choice here.

IF a Christian brother or sister is trying to communicate with you: Jesus commands us to welcome them, to entertain them and to be fond of our brother or sister in the Lord — even love them dearly.

IF we have a relationship with Jesus Christ, then by His command (IF in fact and in deed He IS our Lord) Jesus commands us to love each other dearly.

Take a look in the mirror. After all, you should see a forgiven sinner staring back at you AND Jesus forgave you.

In case you were wondering about the word for “love” in 1 Corinthians 13, often quoted as ‘the love chapter,’ it is a form of the same word:

agapē – affection, good will, love, benevolence, brotherly love

You can be convicted by the entire list by reading the thirteen verses of 1 Corinthians 13; but to point out just a few for the mirror in front of you now:

• Love is not arrogant.
• Love is not rude.
• Love is not irritable.
• Love is not resentful.

Yes, there are more.

And don’t forget, dear brother or sister in the Lord:

Love never ends.

And one final look in the mirror:

12  For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

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Do you love Jesus Christ?