What spiritual power acts through brotherly love! It replaces strife and violence with peace, anger and misunderstanding with calm, sin with reformation and purity, lack and misery with abundance, and sickness and suffering with healing. This love does not have its source in men or material means. It comes from God, although an individual may provide the channel for it. Brotherly love is often akin to a forgiving love. Both are Godlike. Mankind must be ready to respond and conform to their spiritual power.
In the Bible account of Saul's persecution of the Christians we have an evidence of the false, mistaken human conviction so often expressed in violence. With the awesome revelation of Christ Jesus' true mission, and the realization of his own mistake, Saul was outwardly blinded on his way to Damascus. But it was revealed to Ananias that he was to go to Saul where he was praying. Ananias protested. He had heard of the evil that this man had done, and that Saul had come to Damascus with authority from the chief priests to bind all those who preached Christ. However, Ananias was truly and spiritually reassured. Obediently he went to Saul, greeting him with the words, "Brother Saul."Acts 9:17;
What an unction of the Christ-love poured forth in that meeting between Ananias and Saul! Saul's response to it was instant: "Immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith." Oh, may our thought, too, be freed from the scales of doubt, disbelief, distress, prejudice, pride, condemnation, and resentment!
