Title: Knowledge with obedience
This has been my practice: I obey your precepts. – Psalm 119:56
Jesus commanded us to love one another, and he set the example. Verses like 1st John 3:16. “This is how we know what love is: Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brother.”
Throughout the New Testament, numerous verses emphasize the importance of loving one another, and we hear sermons and participate in Bible studies that teach us all we need to know about loving others. I must admit that there are certain people I don’t like or see eye to eye with, and there are individuals who are just not good people, making it hard for me to love them. However, nowhere in Scripture does Jesus instruct us to love only those close to us or only love our church family. We are to love all.
I realized that, no matter how much knowledge I have of the scripture and what it says about loving everyone, I am not being obedient to what Jesus says. Obedience is action on what we study and read, even when it is uncomfortable and messy.
Real men show obedience with their knowledge.
