9Whoever says, ‘I am in the light’, while hating a brother or sister, is still in the darkness. 10Whoever loves a brother or sister lives in the light, and in such a person there is no cause for stumbling. 11But whoever hates another believer is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not know the way to go, because the darkness has brought on blindness.
Whenever we think we may be right about something -- "in the light" is what the Lesson calls it -- yet we are hateful or embittered towards others then we are not at all in the light but in deep, deep darkness.
It is dismaying to me how many Christians have allowed themselves to come to hate whole classes, parties, news channels, and political families with no sense of shame or even compunction. The wolf of anger no longer has to even put on the sheep's clothing and people from all four corners laurel as a virtue and no longer a vice.
And Jesus wept.
There's something we used to say around here that ought to be remembered:
"You can be all right and still be dead wrong."
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