Good morning everyone and welcome back to another morning with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning you guys. We are rounding out day four of our

how to love your neighbors devotional and the Bible app. There's a link to that description

this podcast if you don't follow along with us and as always I'm going to read the scripture

and then Tori's going to read the divo. Let's do it. The scripture is John 13 verses 34

and 35 and it says this a new command I give you love one another as I have loved you so you

must love one another by this everyone will know that you are my disciples if you love one another.

The devotional today is titled Difficult People and it says we're finishing this plan with perhaps

the hardest aspect of loving our neighbor inevitably will encounter people who are just more

difficult to love. People in this category might have different beliefs or viewpoints than we do

and we can often find ourselves frustrated when they don't agree with us. We don't have to stay

in this frustrated place. In fact we can take insight from this Bible plans previous days and

actually apply it here. Here are three ways to love difficult people. One, show compassion.

We don't always know the background or experiences of someone. We might make assumptions but it's

often very short-sighted of us to think we can know why someone acts that way without really knowing

them. So let's show compassion for people instead of jumping to conclusions that may be untrue.

Two, focus on similarities. There will always be someone we don't agree with. In fact there's

probably no one on the planet that we agree with fully. We can narrow in on what divides us

or we could simply choose to focus on where we're united. Three, pray. This is the most valuable

thing you can do but it isn't the only thing. Praying for people we don't agree with will soften

our hearts towards them. We'll begin to truly want what's best for them but we must also pray for

ourselves that will exhibit the fruit of the spirit as we interact with others. Some of the people

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