“If anyone boasts, “I love God,” and goes right on hating his brother or sister, thinking nothing of it, he is a liar. If he won’t love the person he can see, how can he love the God he can’t see? The command we have from Christ is blunt: Loving God includes loving people. You’ve got to love both.”
1 John 4:20 MSG – A verse of the day from the Bible presented in Eugene Peterson’s contemporary version called The Message. Accompanied by a personal reflection below.
This love business doesn’t let up, you see. And there’s nothing ambiguous about it either. You claim that you love God? Well, then you need to be clear that loving your fellowmen is as good as loving God. In fact, you can’t claim to love God if you can’t love your fellowmen. How much clearer could that possibly be?
