With Kindness And Honor

"Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another."  Romans 12:10.  There is a prescription in the Bible as to how we are to treat each other.  This is particularly true of the brotherhood of Christ.  Love is the character that cements the brotherhood together.  All that we do toward each other is to be done with brotherly love.   Each one is to give careful consideration to the other.  Self cannot be the principal subject of our relationship with each other, and certainly, not in our relationship with God.  God and the other brother or sister comes first before ourselves.  Self has died.  Each other lives in our heart, and becomes the concern of our affection and honor.  Each individual within the brotherhood of the church is to treat others with the grace of kindness and honor.  This treatment of each other flows from a heart of love.  Love is never unkind, nor does love treat one with disrespect.  It is my will to love another, but it must also be the will of another to love me.  This grand concept taught in this passage creates an atmosphere of harmony and strength within the brotherhood of believers.