Loving people you don’t like - All The Word for Today Daily Devotionals for 2026

‘His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into His own family.' Ephesians 1:5 TLB

In the Bible God commands us to love one another. Interestingly, He doesn't command us to like one another. And that's a good thing because you can love someone and not like certain things about them. Paul writes, The word ‘prepare' is also interesting. It comes from a medical term in the original Greek. Doctors used it to describe the process of setting a broken bone.

Stop and look around you today. Have you ever seen so many broken hearts, broken homes, broken dreams, and broken lives? And if we who claim to be followers of Christ do our job right, they will find help and healing. God uses us to minister to one another, love one another, honour one another, and carry one another's burdens. When you think about it, the church is God's treatment centre for everything that ails us. And if you keep that in mind, it will help you to love and get along with people you don't necessarily like.

SoulFood: Heb 5-8, Mark 9:30-37, Ps 18:30-50, Pr 11:22