Motivation Morsel - June 19, 2026

Genesis 4:9 Cain (Kayin) said, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” He knew what he had done but did not want to take responsibility for his actions against his brother, Abel.

I ask the same rhetorical question today; Am I my brother’s keeper? The answer is “YES!”

1 John 3:10-18 explains it clearly, “¹⁰ Here is how one can distinguish clearly between G-d’s children and those of the Adversary: everyone who does not continue doing what is right is not from G-d.

Likewise, anyone who fails to keep loving his brother is not from G-d. ¹¹ For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning: that we should love each other ¹² and not be like Kayin (Cain), who was from the Evil One and murdered his own brother. Why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil, and his brother’s were righteous. ¹³ Don’t be amazed, brothers, if the world hates you. ¹⁴ We, for our part, know that we have passed from death to life because we keep loving the brothers. The person who fails to keep on loving is still under the power of death. ¹⁵ Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.

¹⁶ The way that we have come to know love is through his having laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers! ¹⁷ If someone has worldly possessions and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how can he be loving G-d? ¹⁸ Children, let us love not with words and talk, but with actions and in reality!”

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Nothing needs to be added to the Word!

Love one another on purpose. The Shabbat is approaching.

Shabbat Shalom Family.