I Must Love My Brother

Scripture: 1 John 4: [20] If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

Observation: This scripture really hit my heart today. I have been harboring very ill feeling towards my brother and sister-in-law. They are treating my wife poorly and they don’t care and because of the way they handled Teri’s father trust it looks we will lose our house. I have been consumed with hate for both of them for some time and have a hard time thinking of anything else. I know this hurts God yet I don’t stop.

Application: I need to do what God did for me, forgive and forget. Allow God to work and put it in his hands, that HIs will be done. Pray for them more often and don’t think of them in any other way but in love.

Prayer: Dear Father I can’t do this is my power, it will take the filling of the Holy Spirit and your love to accomplish loving those I don’t. May my focus be on you and what you’ve done in my life and how you love me. You deserve the best from me so please help and guide me through this.