Love is What You Do!

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“We belong to God, and everyone who knows God will listen to us. But the people who don’t know God won’t listen to us. That is how we can tell the Spirit that speaks the truth from the one that tells lies.
My dear friends, we must love each other. Love comes from God, and when we love each other, it shows that we have been given new life. We are now God’s children, and we know him. God is love, and anyone who doesn’t love others has never known him. God showed his love for us when he sent his only Son into the world to give us life. Real love isn’t our love for God, but his love for us. God sent his Son to be the sacrifice by which our sins are forgiven.”

1 John 4:6-10

If there is one word in the English language that is overused and rarely understood it is the word LOVE! A little child, like a trained parrot says "I love you" to his mother, but knows nothing of what love is all about. The word "love" is used to describe candy, ice cream, swimming, movies, birthday parties and Christmas gifts. Love is not and has never been our desire for a thing or a certain pleasure. It is not the desire that is love, but it is rather our willingness to give ourselves up for it. So it is true that when you give yourself to the sordid pleasures of this world you are loving the world and things in the world. But this kind of love will end in death!

When a couple enters in to marriage, their love is defined not by what they receive from the other, but what by what they give of themselves to the other person. Love is not measured by how you feel. It is only measured by what you do. Love is easy to say and hard to do!

How does someone love God? Learning to speak and sing the Words of love toward God does not mean that you love Him. Saying "I love you Jesus" can come from the lips of a man or woman who has no real love for Jesus at all. Loving God means that we no longer give ourselves over to the pleasures of this world and it means that we daily give ourselves to Christ.

Look today for an evidence in your own life that demonstrates that you love Jesus Christ. What are you today going to do for Him that is not for your pleasure or personal fulfillment, but for His?

Remember love is not what you say, love is what you do!