A Stumbler's Walk | LOVE IN ACTION

Let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. -- 1 John 3:18

"Love doesn't just think about it... love doesn't just plan it... LOVE DOES IT." - Bob Goff, author of Love Does.

I am fairly certain if someone were to hide in the bushes and spy on my life, they might witness vast periods of love inaction. (In case your brain is in weekend mode and you don't have your Google machine handy, inaction, is the opposite of action. Now, as personally indicting as that sentence is, I invite you to read it again.)

Jesus once said, "Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends." The difference between Jesus and most religion, is that after saying this Jesus did it. In reality, his whole life was a continual demonstration of love in action. 

Our words are certainly important. With them we can build and destroy. As a matter of fact the writer of Proverbs reflects, "The power of life and death is in the tongue," (Proverbs 18:21).

Notice again how John states it, "Let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth." I think there is an implied "only" after "talk;" especially when he adds "in truth." The point? True love is love in action. It is demonstrated when loving words are proven in loving action (deeds). To quote Bob Goff: "LOVE DOES."

God, forgive me for my love inaction. Help me to demonstrate love in action. 

For now...
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