Love Your Neighbour

For the entire law is fulfilled in one statement: Love your neighbor as yourself. But if you bite and devour one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.
Galatians 5:14‭-‬15 HCSB

I have a small dog called Oscar. Oscar's greatest delight is to run along the fence and bark at the dogs next door. They have only met once and I am sure, if allowed, they would have had a dust up (fight). Oscar doesn't know why he likes to bark at the neighbours, He just does. Dogs are not endowed with insight and understanding, however we have these through our relationship with our God.

Biting and devouring happen when we foolishly allow thought to be planted about others, annoyance to build and before long we are speaking those annoyances to others and soon when we meet the one we are annoyed with, we are unkind.

We see constant devouring of others in the media. It should not be so with us. Pray for those who annoy you, bless them, intercede for them. Pull down those thoughts and tear up the malice stored against them. Don't be the enemy's tool for wrong. He is ripping into these people from all sources, why join in?

Love as you want to be loved. Amen!