PHILIPPIANS 2:3-4 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
Rather than hatred, the antithesis of heavenly love is selfishness.
Selfishness is the root of every issue facing the globe nowadays. Selfishness is to blame for all of the issues in our economies and politics. Selfishness is to blame for the issues in our homes.
JAMES 3:16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
The solution is that every one of us should want what is ideal toward others, even to the extent of forgoing our own gain in order to see others prosper. This is how heavenly love looks.
All Christian believers are required to have this kind of devotion. However, this commandment is provided for our benefit and not to depress or blame us. We receive the nature and capacity to carry out the command.
JOHN 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
As they have God's existence within them, all who accept Jesus Christ are able to stand in the same kind of divine love that Jesus did. This is why everyone needs to be reborn, in order to be delivered from the constraints of selfishness and set free from the bonds of evil.
ROMANS 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
SAY THIS: I choose to follow God and walk in divine love, which is the contrary of selfishness.
