Love One Another

In a zoo in California, a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs. Unfortunately, due to complications in the pregnancy, the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size they died shortly after birth.

The mother tiger, after recovering from the delivery, suddenly started to decline in health, although physically she was fine. The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into a depression. The doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogate another mother's cubs perhaps she would improve.

After checking with many other zoos across the country, the depressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the right age to introduce to the mourning mother. The veterinarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment. Sometimes a mother of one species will take on the care of a different species. The only 'orphans' that could be found quickly were a litter of weanling pigs. the zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger.

Would they become pork chops?

As much as I like to think that I'm so much further advanced than any animal, maybe I'm not. What kind of love do I display to those around me? I hate to admit it, but I can think of several relationships, even with brothers and sisters in Christ, where I have been anything but loving.

Even if we're different, even if there are where we disagree, even if they seem like the last person on earth that I could get along with, God's Word has a thing or two to say about loving others.

John 13:34-35 "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples. If you love one another."

Romans 12:10 "Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves."

Ephesians 4:12 "Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love."

1 Peter 1:33 "Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart."

After all, if a tiger can love a pig, shouldn't I be able to love a child of God?

Emily