On Brotherly Love

"But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another." I Thessalonians 4:9

You know you are truly blessed when you are recipient of such love. This is the kind of love that spits on both hands and then climbs down into the trenches to labor alongside you in digging that ditch. This is the kind of love that takes covenant vows to love one another as Christ has loved us seriously. Hereby we know that we are the sons and daughters of God because we demonstrate that love to each other, and also before the world.

I would take a bullet for those who love me and mine this way. They know who they are, but most importantly, God knows them.