Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, - 1 Peter 1v22
Love one another fervently with a pure heart. We talk a lot above love for each other, and I think we honestly try to do just that. This passage goes just a little further in the description of love though.
The kind of love that Peter writes about is a fervent love. It is a love which not just kind of casual and half hearted. Bible love is fervent and intense. This last weekend the Irish rugby team won the Grand Slam of the Six Nations for the first time since 1948. Fans were intense and fervent in the support for their side. This is the kind of love that we are to exercise for each other. It is dominant. It is in control. Love for each other is to be our passion.
True love is also to be out of a pure heart. That means that true love is love without regard to self. True love is all about the other person and not about self. True love never has the wrong motivation.
Love each other. Love each other fervently. Love each other purely. This is the clearest indication that our own souls have been purified.
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