Love your neighbor as yourself. It is in doing this that the faith in Christianity becomes more than just faith or a feeling but actual physical evidence to ones self that everything you believe is actually truth. When you do a selfless act of servitude to someone who hates you and would at any moment lie about you and do evil to you is true evidence of God's truth in Christ. It is the physical evidence of a spring inside you that overflows to make you do seemingly unlogical acts of love for an enemy. You become a part of the love that Christ poured out on everyone as he was on the earth. You start doing what you were really created to do. You start receiving the joy and satisfaction that you've been searching for in things that don't provide. You receive true joy in happiness and God blesses you surely.

"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit-fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. This is my command: Love each other. - John 15:9-17

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