By This Everyone Will Know

"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."

John 13:34-35

This verse has been lingering in my mind for a long time. It is a verse that I have often refer to with many of my conversations lately. 

Jesus gave this command while having his last meal with the Twelve, thus, a message spoken to believers. And this has been an anchor to a lot that has been happening with me lately. For even in the brokenness that I experience, such is a command that I do not want to take lightly. Although I must admit to how difficult it is to love when hurts have been thrown at each other.

Under all of these, I do not want to play the victim of the circumstances, because it is easy to. But I want to stand in firm foundation to what God has allowed to happen to me. I will own faults of my own and I will stand for what I am convicted of. So, I will pray and hold firm to the purpose that God has given to me, and it is to love for His sake. Still, the struggle is not absent. Whenever I have come to find peace of the situation, there is something else that provokes that pain to want me to hate. 

I know that resolution and reconciliation is going to look very difficult but at least I must come to the point of allowing God to work on my heart, whether I get to make things right or not. And if I take seriously the call to make God known and glorified, this is something I must come to deal with.