True Love Is Practical - A PERFECT BOND OF AMIABLE UNION

 God's love holds the entire universe of holy creatures in  union with him.  His most loving gift of his only-begotten Son is an amiable step toward finally  bringing  the many estranged ones on earth into un breakable union with him.  His love induced him to be positive, taking the first action of kindness and forgiving from the heart. That is love in practice.  In our witness work in the field we show kindness to our foes, our opposers, and pray in their behalf, going over our territory again ans again although we have been abused in it by the ignorant and misled ones. How inconsistent  then, to steel ourselves against our own brothers  in the congregation by hardening through that we can excuse the world for its ignorance but our brothers should have known better and  should be dealt with with proportionate severity to make them realize it and feel it till it hurts! In the light of God's example our obligation uis to love our brothers and show them thus a better and superior way. Think good of the brothers. Plan obnly good for others and put the plan into action.  Cultivate this greatest fruit of the spirit, love.

Let the perfect bond of  union grow strong within the New World society.  "Clothe  yourselves with the  tender affections of compassion, kindness, lowliness of mind, mildness, and long-suffering.  Continue  putting up with each others and forgiving one anothers freely if anyone has a cause for complaint against another.  Even as Jehovah freely forgave you, so do you also.  But, besides all these things, clothe yourself with love, for it is a perfect bond of union." (Colossians 3:12-14, NW)  If it is a bond of union it must draw  and hold us together, not separate us, not scatter us.  Now in the antitypical ark of the new system of things that will ride out the Armageddon seas into the new world we mst draw together, not avoid one another.  Difficulties should not be of long continuance between brothers but should be ironed out at the earliest in the interest of everyone's being of the same mind in the Lord.  (Philippians 2:1-4; 4:2)  God's creation hangs together through power from him, like the "attractions  of Kesil." (Job 38:31, Yg) The new world of righteousness will also hang together. It is just ahead, so that a great crowd of this present generation may survive in the "ark" to enter into it from its start. What, then,? Why, we must live together now, before the new world. Armageddon will not miraculously change our disposition toward our brothers, suddenly making us amiabe.  We must change it now .  True, Armageddon can blot out dispositions, but the dispositions it blots out iwill be of those it destroys.  One thing is for certain: True love will survive Armageddon and so will those who practice it. 

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