Treating One Another Right
Dr RJ Sing · 1 min read
“Continue to love each other with true brotherly love. Don't forget to be kind to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it!”
The World is full of all kinds of people. Just looking at someone’s exterior, you might say, “I don’t see much to get excited about” You could look back in the mirror and perhaps say the same thing about yourself. But we need to look below the surface and see our brothers and sisters as members of the body of Christ-people for whom Jesus shed His blood.
If we fail to appreciate and honor other people, we are grieving the heart of the Lord, because the Lord loves everyone enough to die for them. It grieves the Lord bitterly if we have a wrong attitude toward a member of His body, if we look down on others and discount their value. I believe that was the problem of the people of Corinth, whom Paul addressed in two epistles. There were many wrong relationships between them.
They did not discern the Lord’s body in one another (1 Corinthians 11:29) and Paul said, “That is why many of you are weak and sick, and some have even died” (1 Corinthians 11:30). I suppose this reason could well be the major cause of sickness among Christians today. I have to say, with deep regret, that many Christians do not treat one another like fellow members of Christ’s Body. We must begin to walk in love and express the love of God in our actions and words to others.
From the December 2017 issue, themed Jesus the Lord of My Life.
