The Bible tells us that God is love. God expects us to walk in love not only with our brothers and sisters in Christ, but He expects us to love everyone. The text says that love forgives and disregards the offenses of others. We as believers hate sin because God hates sin, but at the same time we must love the sinner because God loves people. We are all at different places in our relationship with God, so we must be patient with people the way God is patient with us. We must be merciful towards people because God is merciful towards us. Jesus said, in what they call the Sermon on the Mount, “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.” We should extend mercy to everyone we meet because we never know when we might need some. Let us love people the way God does; it is a sure sign to the world of whom we belong to.
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