Do They Know You Are a Disciple?

John 13:34-35 (NIV) "A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."

In the world today there is war and strife in every nation.  In the United States there are tensions brewing and protests all around the country.  Why is this happening?  I believe that this is happening because the world doesn't know that we are His disciples.  Why don't they know?  Because we are not following the command that Jesus gave us.  We aren't showing the love of Christ to our brothers.  Our brothers are black, white, brown and yellow.  We are all one brotherhood in Christ and we are not showing it.  Jesus command was simple.  Love one another as I have loved you.  That's how they will know that you are my disciples.

In this crazy mixed up world that we live in there is not enough love.  There is more hatred than ever before and I believe that satan wants it that way.  If there is no love for one another, then people will not see that Christ is love and that Christians are His disciples.  We have to show love to all men of every race and every nation.  We must make disciples and to do that we must be disciples.  The division among the people of America breaks the heart of God.  He is yearning for His people to come back to Him and to love each other and to take care of each other and to stop this infighting and struggling against each other.  We must put aside our differences and realize that we are not going to agree on everything but we can agree that Christ is love and that we must follow His command.

Men of God, do they know you are a disciple?  Love one another and show them that you are.