No strife between brethren

[marcusampe]

"Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee,
and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren"
Genesis 13:8

"We be brethren: Here was the dominant factor which must
guide and influence all relationships between Abraham and
Lot. By comparison nothing else mattered. Before this
over-ruling bond of brotherhood all else was unimportant.
They were near of kin; they had travelled a thousand miles
together; together they had shared the hostility of a new
land and the special dangers of Egypt. And were they now to
squabble over something which only the blessing of God had
brought?

We be brethren! A thousand times since Abraham, and
another thousand times since God revived Abraham's Faith in
these last days, men have become blind to this truth and its
deep eternal obligations. Many a wrangle about trivialities
of mundane level and many a bickering about spiritual truth
of massive unimportance would have been still-born if only
this simple and wholesome truth had been written in larger
capitals in home and ecclesia."

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"The Bedside Watchman"
Published by the Christadelphian Office