LOVE ACTS

 

My granddaughter came over to bake cookies with me the other day. What a blessing it was to spend precious time with her. We have only so much time for memory making moments! This was certainly one of them.  I love that she gave of her time on a day off school to hang out with her grandmother!

Valentines’ Day is upon us already and with it comes talk and songs about love.  But what is love really?

Love is NOT just a feeling.

Love is a decision, an act of the will. We can choose to love.

Love is demonstrated through ACTION.

The best illustration of love is found in the Bible in John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  

God loved, so He gave.

Romans 5:8 goes even further in describing God’s love. “God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”  That is the ultimate demonstration of love, a willingness to die for (in place of, as a substitute for) someone else.  John writes, “We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.”  1 John 3:16

Wow! If we know Jesus and appreciate the way God loves us, we are called to love others – putting their lives and their needs ahead of our own.  Imagine how loving others like that – his/her life and needs ahead of our own - would revolutionize our marriages, our families, our homes, our communities – Loving like Jesus!

Valentine’s Day is ONE day set aside for expressions of love, but EVERY DAY should be Valentine’s Day for those who believe in Jesus and want to follow Him.

• Love Decides
• Love Acts
• Love Gives and Forgives.

Let’s Love like Jesus!

You are loved,

Ruth

John 13:35 “By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”