Chosen Generation~
Realizing that love is an act leads to the fact that love is an action, and not just words. How simple life and consanguinity would be if love was just words.
But – at the same time how barren our subsistence would be.
You see, just as any child will eventually get sick of candy and long for casserole (as the Bible puts it – we will tire of milk and yearn for meat), so will you.
This is true of both our spiritual and of our physical relationships – anyone can “talk the talk,” but only the committed will truly “walk the walk.” Commitment cannot be defined as a one time decision, but as a life long pursuance.
True love takes the time to do the work necessary. True love will joyfully accept the required action, no matter how strenuous, or how tiring.
1 John 3: 18 explains how Christians are charged to love:
“My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth."
As I gaze around at the people engaged in my life, my poisoned brain thinks only of what I can get out of them, and not what I can give them. But as one prays for renewing of the mind God will open their eyes, and they will see that every single person – whether it be family, friends, or someone at Wal-mart – gives them an opportunity to serve through love.
The work clothes of pure and selfless love may not be your favorite to wear, but the Lord promises that they will never go out of style when the season changes.
To you, dressing in love may seem tedious, maybe even disgusting – but love works in a way such that the more often you put on that outfit and purposefully endeavor to truly love, the more beautiful it will become on you. The Love of Christ is an outfit that doesn’t look better depending on your hair or on your makeup – but on your heart.
True love is not tricked by appearances.
Impossible is Nothing~
-Be a World Changer-
Credits: A Young Woman's Wak With God, Elisabeth George, http://biblegateway.com
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