13 For you were called to be free, brothers and sisters; only don’t use this freedom as an opportunity[a] for the flesh, but serve one another through love. 14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement: Love your neighbor as yourself. (Galatians 5:13-14 CSB)
There is a lot being said today about hate and division. Much of it used as a political stance to further a given agenda. This is not to say that there is not hate and division, there most assuredly is.
Our scripture today gives us a very simple recipe to correct all of this; Love your neighbor as yourself.
But this seems a very big task for us.
Whether that comes from generational bias, social differences, race divisions or cultural diversity we have so much that keeps us apart. No matter who you are we all have our own agenda. We may not want to believe that we do, even if your anger is directed at those you feel are wrong, there is division there.
Brothers and sisters, I speak as one who too has my bias. I do not speak as one who has overcome all of my own divisional thoughts. I strive for loving on any I meet, but I know too that I am just as apt as anyone else to not share thoughts of unity.
However, we must start somewhere, and that place is a place of love.
