"Love Ye One Another"

"Love ye one another as I have loved you." A very simple commandment. So easy to be entreated. Why is it so hard for us to love? Do we look for excuses to hate? Are we hateful? hateable?

"Never fall so low as to let a man make you hate him." I will never forget that sermon preached in Ebenezer Baptist Church by Rev ML King, Sr. I was puzzled, I was amazed, his son assassinated, his wife mowed down with bullets in that same church while playing the organ.

I was still very young. I was just beginning to purge some of the vile garbage "knowledge" I had been feed growing up in rural/military Fayetteville, North Carolina.

I carried a lot of secret hatred in my heart. I thought that I hated all dark skin men because my "mother" told me that I did. I thought that I hated all white people for what they had done to me and my people.

That sermon stayed with me, lingered in my mind. Rev King planted a "word" in my heart. I will let no man revile or offend me. I will not shrink or diminish myself in the face of evil.

I will fear no man. I will cultivate the Christ in me.

When I am attacked and hated for existing, for being alive, for having more "talent". I know that my hater is a fool, a man or woman too small for this planet. A blind, deaf and dumb creature determined to never grow. A being whose soul is microscopic.

Now I understand why Jesus commanded us to love our enemies, to do good to those that hate you. I assure you that it is an indescribable Joy! It is a peace that passeth all understanding.

If you are reading this blog full of hatred and envy you need to grow. We all need to grow. We all need to come up a little higher, seek His Face and go and sin no more.

It is still true and His WORD will never change. "Apart from Christ you are nothing."

Be richly blessed.

Much Love, Peace and Happiness,
Rachel