In other words, will you seek to resolve conflict with others, seeking a place of understanding? This place of understanding may not result in agreement. What it will be, is a place where both parties agree that love is bigger, and conflict should not be allowed to trump the spirit of brotherly love.
Today I was reading in Scripture from John. The words resonated deeply with me, and my conclusion was simple. If we as children of God, claim to love God, then we must in turn love others. This remains true, if they love us, or if they do not! For us, we can’t say we love God and not extend that love to everyone else. John makes it very clear that if we do this, then we truly do not love God.
1 John 5:16-17 TPT God is love! Those who are living in love are living in God, and God lives through them. By living in God, love has been brought to its full expression in us, so that we may fearlessly face the day of judgement, because all that Jesus now is, so are we in this world.
1 John 5:19-21 TPT Our love for others is our grateful response to the love God first demonstrated to us. Anyone can say, “I love God,” yet have hatred towards another believer. This makes him a phony, because if you don’t love a brother or a sister, whom you can see, how can you truly love God, whom you can’t see? For he has given us this command: whoever loves God must also demonstrate love towards others.