Love Is An Action

1 John 4:7  Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

If you say that you love someone and yet talk about them behind their back then your actions do not show love at all. A red flag should go up anytime we hear someone being critical of someone else. That is what they do to us when we are not around.

A lot of us think that we are good people because we don't break the commandments. I find that most people don't even know the 10 commandments. Some of us could recite them but do we really understand what they mean. The two most important commandments are Love God and Love Others. If we are not able to grasp those two then what makes us think we are okay with the rest of the list?

It's easy to love those that are lovable and difficult to love those that are not so lovable. Don't go by your feelings but instead by your actions. If you have someone in your life who is not so lovable are you being critical of them to others with your words? Are you just tolerating them because you have to? Those are actions that have more to do with hate than love. What actions can you do to show love to those who you find unlovable? God will provide a way for you to do this in their life if you will just ask Him. Don't miss out on a great blessing by doing what God has done for all of us on the cross. †

  I took this picture at sunrise in the mountains of Spain in 2007.

May God Be Everything~

Psalm 25:5 Guide me in your truth and teach me,
    for you are God my Savior,
    and my hope is in you all day long.

written October 23, 2000:

This is a conversation I heard yesterday between my teenage son and my nephew.

son: Are you going to play football in High School?

nephew: I don't know.

son: You should play football because you can get a lot of girls that way.

me: I disagree with this philosophy!

son: Mom, to a guy, "girls are everything!"

me: Mark my words, one day you will be going to your cousin and apologizing for that statement because it just isn't true.

Later on in the car my son was listening to a song he liked about Samson. He said, Samson is one of my favorite characters in the Bible. I replied, that's interesting because he had the same philosophy you do about girls and look what happened to him. He was conquered and ended his life committing suicide in order to defeat his enemy. All because of the same philosophy of life! I suggest you change the statement, "Girls are everything" to "God is everything!" 

@Calvary__Tweets  "The heart of every problem is the problem of every heart!"

 

This is a picture I took of my husband and now adult son taken August 17, 2012.