Love That Proves Maturity

You can know all the right answers and still be slowly reshaped by bitterness. That’s the tension we sit with as we open 1 John 2:9–11, where John draws a hard line: claiming to live in the light while hating a brother or sister is still darkness. Spiritual maturity, he argues, isn’t mainly about Bible knowledge, church years, or spiritual disciplines. It’s what happens to our heart when love gets…