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Seeking Maturity: Part 3 Heart to Hand; Hand to Heart

Yesterday I looked at the necessary connection between loving God and loving all people. This is not a liberal, socialist, touchy-feeley Christianity. These are the commands of Jesus Christ to those who follow him. If we do not have the capacity to show love to the people we can see and touch around us, then we do not have the capacity to love God. (1 John 3:10) Heart to Hand Love cannot be, however, just an feeling toward another person. As one of the great poets of the last 30 years has written, Love is more than what you feel; Love is action, love is real...(Billy Ray Cyrus, Stand ) The love of 1 John is tangible love, meaningful love.   So now we can tell who are children of God and who are children of the devil. Anyone who does not live righteously and does not love other believers does not belong to God. 11  This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another. 12  We must not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil...