When you love someone, how do you demonstrate your love for them? And what are your expectations of someone who professes to love you? Love is, after all, a two-way street, is it not, or something would be off or amiss.
A reasonable expectation would involve the words care, time, embrace, words that affirm, corrections in love, patience, compassion when we make poor choices, and many others. If we say we love without any or all of the above, how would we know that we truly love? I am sure you have heard that love is a verb that requires you to act and not just a word that we utter without an outward demonstration.
When we think of love in a heavenly context, love attributed to our Father is the same. I remember hearing something online, an atheist, I’m guessing, was ridiculing God, saying, how can a loving and all-powerful God force his believers to worship Him and give him adoration…I am not about to write the rest of what he said as I believe it borders on blaspheme. It was difficult to listen as he went on disparaging Christianity and spewing contempt so, of course, I removed myself.
As Christians, do we go beyond just saying, ‘Father God, I love you’. What is the difference between our Earthly Father and our heavenly Father where LOVE is concerned? Should we go the extra mile and demonstrate love to an earthly father, who is less worthy than our Creator, and not go out of our way to do more, rather than the same for God our Father who created us in His image? Do we say we love God yet ignore the need to change how we live? Many of us currently live the words found in James 3:10-12(msg): …With our tongues we bless God our Father; with the same tongues we curse the very men and women he made in his image. Curses and blessings out of the same mouth!
Unacceptable!
Think about it for a good minute, God made us and breathed life into us. He equips us and provides for us; this is what we believe, yet many of us take him for granted. He can pull the plug on us, yet, HIS love and mercy allow us to see sunrise after sunrise. If our Earthly Father could do the same, imagine how we would be the devoted, doting kids? We must show our gratitude to God the Father first by allowing his Spirit within us to change us. We must be willing to undergo whatever it takes to transform and renew our minds so that we are aligned with every plan He has for our lives.
That is Love!
When we say we love Father, we must pursue righteousness, meaning we must resist temptation and cling to Holiness despite how difficult it may be. These are a few ways we show love to our Heavenly Father. We must never take for granted His goodness and mercy, His grace. The best way to show love through our action is to reject the life we knew before and to open ourselves to the renewed thinking that God the Father offers.
That is the LOVE way to live!
People conceived and brought into life by God don’t make a practice of sin. How could they? God’s seed is deep within them, making them who they are. It’s not in the nature of the God-born to practice and parade sin. Here’s how you tell the difference between God’s children and the Devil’s children: The one who won’t practice righteous ways isn’t from God, nor is the one who won’t love brother or sister. A simple test. 1 John 3:9-10.
Lots of Love & Amazing Light.
