Expressing Love

EXPRESSING LOVE
Saturday, 9th January, 2016
“…let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth” (1 John 3:18)

I never saw Jesus say, “I Love you”, no, not even to Peter, James and John. Yet you could not be around Jesus and not feel loved.

Today there are a lot of emotional screams in the air, “I love you!” and all kinds of emotional response, yet relationships are on the downward slide, unity is nowhere, and people don’t feel loved.

In fact, more people have committed suicide because of the vain expression “I love you”, than the real expression “I hate you”

There is no issue with saying “I love you”, only that it is the same thing as saying “I bless you” You don’t have to say I bless you, simply bless by words of comfort or by acts and demonstrations of blessings.  It is same instance with love.

Although we didn’t see Jesus screaming “I love you”, He said, “I am with you always” In evidence we saw Emmanuel, God became flesh, and next we saw the Holy Spirit bearing witness within us. He said. “I will die for you” and then he did. He also spoke words of comfort.

Even if your love language is words of affirmation, I bet you cannot stand words without performance. In addition to “I Love you”, why not say; “I understand your pain”; “I would react same if I were in your shoes”, “don’t cry”, “it will be well”, “I’m thinking of you”

Make a decision to love for real. You may say I love you, but remember that words never moved Jesus when speaking to Peter, he said if you love me, Feed my sheep. (John 21:15-17)

The God way of expressing love is through words of comfort, exhortation, actions and deeds, the least is saying, “I Love You”, although you may add it. “I love you” is only one of many kind words.  Love God and man this way.

SELAH- (kind words, deeds) + Sincerity (actions)  is God’s way of expressing love.

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