Monday, May 23, 2016

We Are How We Treat Each Other




You can’t fool people!!! 





The world knows THE TRUTH when they see it!!!





It won’t take long before they’ve got your number!!! 





Just give those around you a little time, and they’ll know whether you LOVE others or NOT!!! 





Just open your mouth and you’ll let the cat out of the bag!!!





That’s why JESUS told his disciples, that people would know them by the LOVE that they showed for one another.




John 13:34-35 (ESV)

34 “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.

35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”





That’s the very reason that GOD told us that we can’t say we LOVE HIM, when we hate those around us!!!





1 John 4:20 New Century Version (NCV) If people say, “I love God,” but hate their brothers or sisters, they are liars. Those who do not love their brothers and sisters, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have never seen.





We can show others how much we LOVE Christ, by showing them kindness.  Sometimes, just a smile will do!!! 





That’s how we show others that we are truly followers of Christ!!!  We show the people that we meet every day and the folks that we are around every day, our LOVE for them and others!!!





Galatians 5:22-23 (ESV)

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 

23 gentleness, self-control…





If you want other people to treat you right, then you have to treat others right.  When you treat others with kindness and show that you care for them, you’ll get kindness in return!!!  And you’ll find that others care for you, as well!!!





Luke 6:31 (NCV) Do to others what you would want them to do to you.






As the song says, We are how we treat each other and Nothing More!!!





Nothing More – The Alternate Routes


To be humble, to be kind.
It is the giving of the peace in your mind.
To a stranger, To a friend
To give in such a way that has no end.


We are Love
We are One
We are how we treat each other when the day is done.
We are Peace
We are War
We are how we treat each other and Nothing More


To be bold, to be brave.
It is the thinking that the heart can still be saved
And the darkness can come quick
The Dangers in the Anger and the hanging on to it.


We are Love
We are One
We are how we treat each other when the day is done.
We are Peace
We are War
We are how we treat each other and Nothing More


Tell me what it is that you see
A world that’s filled with endless possibilities?
Heroes don’t look like they used to, they look like you do.


We are Love
We are One
We are how we treat each other when the day is done.


We are Peace
We are War
We are how we treat each other and Nothing More




***I’m a fan of NCIS, and heard this song tonight as I watched one of their reruns.  Here is a little information about this song and why it was written. 




In their video introducing Nothing More, Tim Warren and Eric Donnelly talk about the story behind the song.  They tell tat it was written in honor of Charlotte Bacon, one of the students who died at Sandy Hook Elementary School.  The band’s goal was to raise awareness and funds to help those that were devastated by the shootings and deaths at the school and to help those in the surrounding community.    




“In an effort to raise awareness for the organization Newtown Kindness, the Alternate Routes took to the task of writing some music for the organization's video to be placed on their website. The music became something much more than that…”




”New Single from The Alternate Routes. Nothing More was written for and inspired by the work of our friends at Newtown Kindness. The Nothing More single was featured on the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, as well as the December 17th 2013 NCIS episode titled 'Homesick' (Season 11 Episode 11).”





The video is taken from some old 8mm home movie footage that Tim found of his sister Katie.  Tim Warren is the leader singer of The Alternate Routes.  The original family footage was made in 1981 when Katie was 3 years old. 

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