Love is an action word, a verb! If we say we love someone, a pet, or something we DO things to show that love just as our Heavenly Father shows love. Jesus didn’t demand that the people believe in Him before He agreed to come to save us. Jesus didn’t demand the people believe His words before He fed, healed, taught, forgave, before He loved. Jesus gave because HE loved. God our Heavenly Father corrects us as well. I have learned there is much love in His correction and direction because it always leads away from danger and destruction to what is good and right. Remember God judges us on our actions toward others.
1 John 4:19-20 We love Him because He first loved us. If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom He has not seen?
1 John 2:6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk just as He walked.
James 2:14-15 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food,
Romans 13:10 Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Matthew 23:36-40 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” Jesus said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment and the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
1 Corinthians 13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
How do we put love into action? How will we put love into action? It is not in grand, showy, gestures but a daily walk in being awake and aware of others. May our love be in action, in word and deed.
