Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. 1 John 3:18
In Other Words
God's children should do more than talk lovingly or speak the language of love; love and truth must also be revealed by their actions.
Small Bites
✓ We are God's children
✓ Our behavior should reveal His love
✓ Loving talk is not enough
✓ Talk of loving is not enough
✓ Love of talking is not enough
✓ What we do reveals who we are
✓ We are His. He is ours. All because of love
✓ The love in His truth comforts us
✓ The truth in His love directs us
✓ Love of His truth protects us
✓ The truth of His love encourages us
✓ The truth from His love guides us
✓ Love from His truth inspires us
Questions and Thoughts to Aid Digestion
Do you talk, or do you do? Do you talk about what you do, or do what you talk about?
Do you walk it out after you talk it out?
Have you ever talked yourself out of expressing or accepting love?
Think about one of your habits or actions that express His love. Now one more. Was that hard?
Can your actions be loving and yet not truthful?
How does one express love by truthful actions?
Are honesty and truth the synonyms for the same thing, or are they different?
Prayer: Dear Lord, help me to either talk less and do more or do more when I talk more. Amen.
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