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Love in Deed

Love in Deed

Have you ever had someone say that they loved you but you didn’t believe them or feel like it was the truth?  Have know that you were loved by someone who never said I love you but you knew that they did? What is the difference? 

Think about this. How do you know that God loves you or anyone? Was it simply because He said I love you, I love everyone OR did He demonstrate His love through action? 

As a Christian should we not love as God does?  Should we not use the same method that He does?  

Look at what God’s Word says about how He expresses loves.  

John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

 

Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.


In both of these verses we see that the Love of God is not just a simple phrase. Words are cheap and insincere without corresponding actions.  Love is not emotion, it is action that comes from a choice to love.  God hates sin and yet while we were in sin He sent Christ to pay the price for our sins by His dying in our place, taking our wrath and punishment upon Himself.  
I have lost track of how many times strangers have teared up when I have prayed for them.  Trust me it wasn’t the eloquence of my words, it was the fact that I showed genuine care for them.  Folks there is a world that is separated from the Father which means that they are separated from true love.  There is not love apart from God for God is love.  Everything else that we call love is just a cheap imitation, lust, maybe affection at best but usually selfish and self centered.  God love is none of that.  It is the real deal and when you truly experience it you can’t help but be changed.  

So let us follow the instruction of 1 John 3:18 My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
If we do this we will change the world.


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