“By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
John 13:35
This article will begin with a dream I received from the Lord a few weeks back.
It started off with an interaction with two of my sisters while we were seated at this large and rectangular dining table. In the dream, one of my sisters was upset about something and I was giving her advice on how to not lose her cool while we were at this table.
There was a good reason that I told her this. And somehow, as dreams often work, I knew instinctively why this was.
The large table that we were seated at was on display in front of an audience that we could not see, a spiritual audience. And I knew that the rectangular table represented our lives. Sitting at this table was the result of a choice to follow Christ.
And I also knew in my spirit that we were being watched, and what was being sought after was how we demonstrated our love for one another. And that was all. Nothing else was looked at so carefully as was our love and how we treated each other.
Suddenly, the scene changed up a bit.
And it was no longer my sisters and I at this table, but the disciples who had first chosen Christ, aka the apostles. I watched them from an angle where they could not see me, but I was in the same room.
Two of the apostles were in an argument as they walked up to the same rectangular table we had just been sitting at. And one of them spoke similar words to the quarreling apostles as my own. He emphasized the need to love one another and told them as well that they, too, were on display before the heavenlies. And again in my spirit I knew what was being observed, how they loved and interacted with one another.
The conversation of these two apostles was not so important, but their hearts and motives, along with ours, were laid bare before the Lord, His host and a great cloud of witnesses.
I woke up and ran this dream through my mind again and again. I felt conviction, understanding, and excitement all at one time. And remembered the words of our Lord Jesus on His extraordinary message and emphasis to love one another.
“Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us”
Hebrews 12:1