October 9

"Let love of the brethren continue." Hebrews 13:1

God's heart is great and so should ours be. We must learn to have a love large enough to embrace all God's children. If a man is born of the Spirit, then he is a brother. He is a brother if he understands divine truth clearly, and he is still a brother if he does not. If he stays comfortably at home, he is my brother; and if he falls into a ditch on the street, he is my brother still.

Was he baptized by immersion or by sprinkling? Does he believe that the "great tribulation" will last three and a half years, or seven? Is the "rapture" he looks for to be partial or total? If you base your willingness to love him on any such doctrinal questionnaire, you do wrong. Ask only, Has he the life of Christ or not? Every one who is redeemed by the precious blood is a brother, and a brother who must be loved.