“The Apostle Paul taught that faith works by love. What a
valuable doctrine to understand! Love is the driving force behind faith. Just
as a fire at home on a cold winter night makes it warm, so love of God and
neighbor gives us faith, with which anything is possible. Most of us profess to
love God. The challenge is loving our neighbor. The term neighbor includes
family, people with whom we work, those whom we see in geographical proximity
to our home and at church, and even the enemy, though we do not condone what
the latter does. If we do not love all of these, our brothers and sisters, can
we truly say that we love God? The Apostle John declared ‘that he who loveth
God love his brother also,’ and added, ‘If a man say I love God, and hateth his
brother, he is a liar.’ Love of God and neighbor must therefore be inseparably
connected.” – Robert F. Orton
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