Love one another sounds simple enough, but in reality it is very complex. Doing research a long time ago for a paper on abuse, I read the work of a psychologist who said that in all his years of practice he had never met a parent who didn't loved their child. They might be abusing the child but they still claimed they loved that child. They only wanted what was best for the child they always said. That reminds me of the story of the Father who seeing his child climbing on something held out his arms as if to catch the child and said jump. When the child let go and jumped the father stepped aside and let the child fall. "Let that be a lesson to you. You can not trust anyone in this life," he said.
Think of the implications. If you are taught that you can't trust anyone, either verbally or by experience how can you possibly trust your Father in Heaven and his Son Jesus Christ? How can you truly love anyone? Is it easy to love someone that loves you? You'd think so wouldn't you,
but sometimes when we treat someone kindly fear comes upon them and they
wonder what we want from them.
Now you and I know that is not what Christ meant when he said love one another. We know that what he said was love one another AS he has loved us.
How does Christ love us? He says, "As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you ... If ye keep my commandments ye shall abide in my love"
The lesson here is that we must learn to love as Christ loves and as the Father does. How do we do that? By keeping the commandments and by learning to listen to the Holy Ghost. By obeying that prompting from the Spirit, by studying the Scriptures and seeking to know Heavenly Father's will for us and doing it.
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