love one another

Monday August 30th, Hebrews 13: 1 Keep on loving each other as sisters and brothers. 2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it. 3 Remember those in prison as if you were their fellow prisoners, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering. The twofold commandment to love God and love others is, according to Christ, the culmination of all the Law and prophets. The Gospels tell us that Jesus said it is the summation of the gospel. Loving others sounds good on paper, doing it however, takes work because the love Jesus was talking about had little to do with feelings, it was a verb. Loving others as a sister or brother means getting to know them as one would get to know a brother or sister. Entertaining strangers, even those with whom you may not see eye to eye, just might mean you are entertaining angels, but it might also mean that you have just welcomed in someone who is downright weird, or perhaps even dangerous. You won’t know that until you get to know them. What Jesus calls us into is relationships because in the end it all comes down to getting to know one another.