“Let us not love in word...but in deed…” ~ 1 Jn. 3:18
I find most pastors and congregations are shocked when I tell them that Jesus never told anyone, while here on earth, that He loved them. He loved in “deed,” not in “word.” It is recorded that He loved someone, but He never told anyone.
As the old adage goes, “Talk is cheap.” It costs nothing to tell someone you love them; the real test of any love is what you are prepared to “lay down.” It says of Divine love, “Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us.” And who is not familiar with “For God so loved...that he gave…”?
I can test my love for God and others today. In fact, this very minute, I can know if I possess the real thing or have a counterfeit. How much am I ready to spend? How much will I bleed? There is a lot of superficial love among Christians today. It’s a love that lays down nothing, but only takes up things. It is self-seeking; self-crucifixion is foreign to it.
True, Biblical love lays down its life for God and others. You can always track it; the road it travels is stained with crimson. We are partakers of His Divine nature. Let us, therefore, love in deed.
”Affection without action is like Rachel—beautiful, but barren.” (John Trapp)
by an aged Saint
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Yes indeed!