Loving one another


“So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.”John‬ ‭13‬:‭34‬ ‭NLT‬‬

I just awoke from a dream in which I was going camping with church friends. I had made a last minute decision and asked the two men if I might travel with them and share their accomodation. This had caused another friend to be bumped from the same arrangement. That friend was visibly upset, but I was going to do what I planned because I needed it.  Selfishness and compromise won out in my heart. Awareness that I was not considering her or my parents lingered in the background.

Obviously this dream is not about me, I am 72 and my parents are long dead. However, the girl in the dream I recognise. She has a lot of this sort of behaviour thrown on her plate. On Sunday she had been rejected from the worship team. She was very upset because she was told she sang flat. She did not believe that was the case.

However, in any church we have a mix that ‘gets on well’ and then there are those who don’t seem to fit. What do we do with these? Do we love them as Christ loves them or move on over them? More often than not we move on over them. If we took time to seek the Lord He would show us how to love them.

I have an autistic grandson who has struggled his whole life to fit in. Recently he wrote to me and told me he met an autistic girl. He was very happy to find someone who thought like him, who understood him.

We fit with Jesus, however, we need to find our place in the body. Can ai help? Can we help?

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