Greetings Dear Reader,
Yesterday
we centered our thinking around love as a noun (that little underline of yesterday
is a link in case you did not know that. [I cannot link you to yesterday and it
would be foolish to try, but it is a link to yesterday’s post]). Today we will give our attention to love as a
verb. It is here that we find love to be
demanding and filled with expectations.
A verb gives action to the sentence. It tells us what the subject does. Again, the example from yesterday serves. I write. I write this blog, stories, books
and poems. Everything that follows write
is just a way to give more information about writing. It explains what kind of writing I do when I
write.
“Love loves,” is a complete sentence. The action of loving is summed up well by
Paul in the passage from Corinthians that we looked at yesterday. It is to be understood that our actions are
what determine if we actually love. I
cannot take my love out and show it to you.
I can show you that I love you by doing things that are loving, that
demonstrate it.
We convince ourselves that we still love people when we in
fact resent them or are harboring, carrying, and nurturing some offense they
have committed. We cannot love someone
without showing it. The noun love is dependent
upon the verb love for its existence. “But
God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners,
Christ died for us.”
Love must be demonstrated.
It must have hands and feet. It
is where we earn the right to be heard.
It is the place in which we find the end of our self-centered greed and
the beginning of generosity and sacrifice.
I do not want to deceive you.
Love demands all of us. Every bit
of our being must be consumed by love.
We are required to love others as Christ loves us.
Anther aspect of the verb part of love is that it is not
intended to have a pasts tense. We are
not allowed to stop loving others. It is
intended to be as constantly present in tense as God, the great I AM is. The verb love must always be present tense in
our actions toward others.
This verb can have a future, but it is only a promise that when
the future moment arrives, love will be present. The verb can be used in the past tense in
this way as well. The Father makes it
clear that he has loved us since before the foundation of the world. Our lives are intended to be a long series of
loving acts demonstrated by kindness, generosity, and service to others.
This means that if I am going to actually love there are
things I must do. Love the noun only
gets its life from becoming love the verb.
I must forgive. I must interact
with those I claim to love in a loving and positive way. I am obligated to show love to everyone I encounter. Oh, and I must do it all out of love for the
Father.
It is in this that I will find out if I am willing to shed
that which is in me and unloving. I can
imagine a world where we all choose to be loving toward each other. It is in this kind of world that we will eventually
live. What we need to do, Dear Reader is
begin building it together so that others can see it. What do you think, care to help me?
Don’t Tell Them Jesus Loves
Them – Steve Camp
Oh, the suffering souls
Crying out for love
In a world that seldom cares
See the hungry hearts
Longing to be filled
With much more than our prayers
And a young girl sells herself on Seventh Avenue
And you hear her crying out for help
My God! What will we do?
Don't tell them Jesus loves them
‘Till you're ready to love them too!
‘Till your heart breaks from their sorrow
And the pain they're going through
With a life full of compassion
May we do what we must do?
Don't tell them Jesus loves them
‘Till you're ready to love them too!
All the desperate men
Are we reaching for the souls,
That are sinking down sin?
Oh, cry for the church
We've lost our passion for the lost
And there are billions left to win
And another 40,000 children starved to death today
Would we risk all we have
To see one of them saved!?!
‘Till you're ready
to love them too!
‘Till your heart
breaks from their sorrow
And the pain
they're going through
With a life full of
compassion
May we do what we
must do?
Don't tell them
Jesus loves them
‘Till you're ready
to love them too!
Why have we waited so long
To show them Jesus lives
To share salvation's song!
Why have our hearts become so proud
That we fail to see
To love them is to love God!
And a young girl sells herself on Seventh Avenue
Hear her crying out for help
What will we do?
Don't tell them Jesus loves them
‘Till you're ready to love them too!
‘Till your heart breaks from their sorrow
And the pain they're going through
With a life full of compassion
May we do what we must do?
Don't tell them Jesus loves them
‘Till you're ready to love them too!
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer
who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home
owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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