Do you like Walmart? 

Maybe not, but do you shop there sometimes anyway? I’m not a Walmart fan but still end up there often enough. 

Opinions and preferences run deep, and that will always make shopping trips (and personal relationships) tricky. You’re on your own about where to shop, but the Bible has some very helpful things to guide our personal relationships. 

‭‭2 John‬ ‭1‬:‭5‬-‭6‬ ‭says, “And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.”

Love? Yes! 

Approve of everything? No! 

God originated love and for us to genuinely love anyone, we need to follow God’s design and God’s commandments. 

Verses 10-11 say, “If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: for he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.”

We often can’t “just all get along” for one of 2 reasons:

A wrong heart from one or both people (which is a bad thing and not loving at all)

Or a wrong direction from one or both people. At those points, it’s not unloving to still do right even when others do wrong. We might not “get along” with everyone or please everyone, but our job as Christians is to please God more than people. Being selfish and unloving never pleases God, but neither does just going with the flow or approving of things the Bible says are wrong.