Loving our Neighbor

Today was the last day of our men’s meeting. Our topic for the day was “How do we love our neighbor?”. We discussed Mark 12:29-31, I John 4:7-21, John 13:34-35 Ephesians 5: 25f and Acts 4:32-35.

The meeting went very well and every one seemed to be really encouraged and challenged. I know that I personally was sad that it was over. We talked about the future and my desire to come back regularly to teach them and give them council.

Praise the Lord!! Randy just came back into the house and said that he had met with Joseph, my best friend that I wrote about in my last post, and that Joseph had confessed his sins and asked for forgiveness! Randy thought that he seemed truly humble and repentant. None of us know yet what the next step will be. There are a lot of people that both Joseph and Randy will need to talk to. Sin is very difficult to untangle! There are long lasting consequences. Regardless, this is a very significant first step! There have been so many prayers offered up on Joseph’s behalf! We praise God for this first step!!! (Kelly, Joseph asked me last night, when we were discussing this meeting and him asking Randy for forgiveness, if he should wait until you returned to talk to you together. He talked about the danger of putting it off, and therefore never doing it. I quickly advised him not to wait!)

On a day when we talked about loving your neighbor, it is so great to see the beginnings of repentance and then forgiveness with Randy’s next door neighbor, Joseph! Join us in praising God on this day! If we are to be like Jesus, we must love our neighbor. That involves not only ministering to them physically, but also Spiritually. We must share God’s word with them and do all that we can to draw our neighbor closer to Him. We love because He first loved us. May you feel God’s love and share it with your neighbor today!
----Greg