![]() “They marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus." (Acts 4:13b) Too often others are unable to identify Christians in the crowd because our behavior is so similar to that of the world. We fear rejection and the ridicule of others so we would rather blend in. When it comes to love we often allow our past hurt and pain to interfere with our ability to allow the love of God to manifest in our treatment of others. When we allow our pain from the past and society to dictate what we should look like, be like, possess, or succeed at, then we look more like the world than we do Christ. Yet, we should each strive to be imitators of Christ. What would it profit us to take on the attributes of the world and lose our own souls? How we treat others will always be one of the major factors in which others determine if we are followers of Christ. “As God is love, so Christ is love. Oh, ye Christians, be ye loving also. Let your love and your beneficence beam out on all men…Speak kind words, do kind actions; live out Christ again in the kindness of your life. If there is one virtue which most commends Christians, it is that of kindness; it is to love the people of God, to love the church, to love the world, to love all.” Spurgeon GiGi❤️
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