February Devotional

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Love Is an Action Word
Soror Tereasa Brown

Leavenworth Alumnae

Member, Regional Chaplain's Council
 

Scripture: Matthew 22:36-40 

36 “Teacher, which is the most important commandment in the law of Moses?”37 Jesus replied, “‘You must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.”

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As a child of God, how do we show our love for God? Does our behavior line up with our speech? We say we love the Lord, but does our behavior show that we are Satan’s best friend? We say we honor the Lord, but do we show more honor and respect to man? We say we are worshippers, but do we represent everything but Christ? The text commands us to love the Lord God with all our heart, soul, and mind. In other words, we are to surrender our all to God, we are to empty out our cups and lay our will down so that He can fill us up and let His will be done. And lastly, we are to let this mind be in you, that was also in Christ Jesus, meaning Lord, let my thoughts line up with your thoughts. Let me desire what you want me to desire. 

The text also let’s us know we are to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. One must wonder, do we really love ourselves? The way we treat others at times would make one think we are extremely unhappy with ourselves. If a mirror was held up to us while we were naming the name of Christ in one breath, we should not be cussing people out in the next breath, speaking in tongues in the church, and don’t know how to speak to our sisters and brothers in English. As Christians, we should show God’s love and display the love of God daily. 

Love is an action word; therefore, let our actions speak louder than our words.