"Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me." (John 8:42 KJV)
"Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has become a child of God. And everyone who loves the Father loves his children, too. We know we love God's children if we love God and obey his commandments. Loving God means keeping his commandments, and his commandments are not burdensome." (1 John 5:1-3 NLT)
Having a heart for the things of God, means that we must love others! I might not have to like them, but I must love them. How that actually looks, I guess you would say, it takes the form of caring for the inner person, even though you might not be able to tolerate the external one. If that makes any sense, then go with it; if not, then figure out on your own.
This world is a fallen world, it is going to be destroyed and made new; so, the things that we see are only temporary and soon to pass. This flesh that we walk around in, is also temporary, just a tent that our soul dwells within as long as we are here. The people we meant and associate with, they all have an eternal soul within them, and the eternal soul is that which lives on forever and ever.
Not that I need to make that known to anyone, because if you are a child of God, it should already be obvious and well known. But sometimes we forget! We judge people by the external, without even considering the internal person that dwells within them, that part of them that needs that which the world cannot provide.
Having studied the Bible, heard tons of messages, and had the Holy Spirit show me a thing or two, I have come to understand that those of us who are God's children are no longer those that care for and live after the things of this world. That said, we still have a connection here; and because of that, we will still find ourselves doing the things that get us caught up in the things of this world.
You really don't need to try very hard to find examples of people in the Bible that have done just that, but the bottom line and the thing that matters most, is that of loving God and loving God's your fellow brothers and sisters. Love is the key, more than anything else, without love, there is no connection to God; and, without love, there is no way we can keep His commandments...
"Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love - not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us." (1 John 4:7-12 NLT)
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