Love one another

John 13:34-35
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

1 John 3:16,18
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. … Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

1 Corinthians 13:4-5
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful.

Jesus says that loving His people in the way that He loved us (self-sacrificially) is the evidence that we are truly His disciples.

It troubles me that there are professing Christians who do not seem to take this seriously, who act as though it does not apply to their situation, or to the relationships they have - or to the interaction they have with other people on Facebook.

Where is the love working itself out in patience, kindness, humility, deference?
Where is the love that does not insist on its own way and is not easily irritated?

1 Corinthians 6:6-7
"…brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers[.] To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?"

Why defame the name of Christ before unbelievers - just to prove yourself to be in the right in a situation?  Can you not love the honor of Christ enough to let God vindicate you in His time, even though it feels like you have "lost" by not insisting on your way?