The love supports everything

Some people are hard to love. They are irritating and exhausting, and succeed in a few minutes in removing the joy and peace of the Christians who walk in the flesh. They speak badly, they reproach, they recall past mistakes, they mock, they insinuate things and they suspect evil. They have the gift of reviving the flesh of the Christians who had crucified him.

You may know one of these people. It may be your mother, your uncle or your brother. Sometimes the devil will agitate that person to get you out of your hinges. You have to be careful ! We must not act in the flesh ! We must continue to act in love !

"May your sweetness be known to all men. The Lord is near" (Philippians 4: 5). What encouragement! Your mother, your uncle, your brother, or that irritating person around you must meet your sweetness. She must get to know your sweetness. She must discover it. There is a power in the sweetness that comes from God, a force that can sometimes shut the mouths of the most wicked. Before giving this encouragement, Paul wrote : "Rejoice in the Lord always ! I repeat : rejoice !" (Philippians 4: 4) We must admit that we do not want to rejoice in front of an irritating person who exhausts us. We just want to say goodbye and close the door. But we must endure and persevere in love.

"In all humility and gentleness, with patience, endure one another in love" (Ephesians 4: 2). "Support one another, and if one of you has a reason to complain of another, forgive each other. Just as Christ has forgiven you, forgive you too" (Colossians 3:13). This is valid even for the unbeliever.

Jeremy Sourdril