Who do you love?
What would it look like this week to make your love visible and concrete to someone who needs to feel it?
1 John 4:19-20
We love because God first loved us. If you say you love God but hate your sister or brother, you are a liar. For you cannot love God, who you have not seen, if you hate your neighbor, who you have seen.
Every verse this week has focused in some way on the collective. Then we land on this verse here.
If you say you love God but you don’t love your fellow humans, your covenant-sharing kin, you are…a liar.
Ouch.
I don’t know one person who likes being called a liar. Because your word is everything, right? And if you say you love God but don’t love your neighbor, you’re at odds with your own words.
But despite the word ‘liar’ being harsh, you can’t uphold a covenant, share a kinship, hold the shared vision, or be connected by God’s Spirit if you refuse to love God’s family.
Which brings us right back to Jesus’s earlier words, “Who is my mother? Who are my kin?”
Who would Jesus say in 2026?
What would it look like this week to make your love visible and concrete to someone who needs to feel it?
— Amanda Creek
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