2021-05-13 02:21:10
A Call to Brotherly Love
Christians on Telegram have laboriously spent their time dedicating themselves to traditional personalities and aesthetics, but is there a pertinent gem we’ve forgotten to unearth and adorn our personalities with despite proclaiming to be traditional Christians? Yes, there is; the sparkling gemstone we continue to dirty is the sacred commandment of brotherly love (John 13:34-35). Perhaps one of the best indications of genuine faith a Christian may exude is their incessant, righteous, and sweet tongued love for their brothers and sisters performed as though they were tending to Christ (Matt 25:31-46). In the 21st century brotherly interaction in person and especially on the internet has become dastardly virulent due to our failure to soften our hearts and bridle our tongues. Truly, it has been written that faithful Christians bridle their tongues and forgive their brothers thereby avoiding tangential escalation and gaining our Father’s forgiveness (Jas 1:19-27; Matt 6:5-15). Many of our brothers have steeped themselves into toxin rich pools of deceptious irony and sinister humor, but are these expressions truly ironic? For out of the abundance of the heart comes the words from our mouths (Matt 15:17-20; Luke 6:45): Our tongues, if left rampant, pollute our entire body and set our existence ablaze in this life in preparation for hellfire in the next leaving us desperate for cooling just as the rich man prayed for his tongue to be dampened in Hades (Jas 3:1-6; Luke 16:19-31). We have been called to judge each other’s fruits (Matt 7:15-20); so then, in which way should a Christian react to works of sexual degeneracy, spiteful insult, and the likes? There are many times when we must righteously rebuke liars, hypocrites, and white washed tombs with a demeanor that couples the severity of the transgression, but we must also ask ourselves if we’re acting out in love and rightness as our mortal anger does not accomplish God’s righteous will (Matt 23:1-36; Jas 1:20; Prov 6:16-19). The correct practice of rebuking a brother does not spawn from poisonous feelings of anger or malice, but from love so that the rebuker acts with gentleness and patience even if the transgressor in question has made himself an enemy (Gal 6:1-10; 2 Tim 4:1-8; Matt 5:43-48). Fruits born by love through the Holy Spirit invoke joy, patience, kindness, gentleness, and self control, which we should all strive to produce with ceaseless vigor (Gal 5:13-26; Eph 4:17-32). Let us remember that we will be judged by God for every word uttered from our mouths and that to put our brethren down by calling them a fool will surely be met with hellfire (Matt 12:33-37; 5:22). If we do not maintain this standard of decorum we not only forsake our ancient traditions drawn from God’s Word, but also deceive ourselves and harden our hearts, but we do not deceive God.
@AdamicRevival
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