Dig a Little Deeper: Love on Display

 

We are only able to truly love because God pours his love into us. 

As we look to the cross, we see true, sacrificial love. Jesus was God incarnate who left his throne to be executed on a cross for people who hated him. He truly gave of himself in order to demonstrate his love.

who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Philippians 2:6-8

Loving as Christ Loved

The challenge from Scripture is that we love in the same way. This does not necessarily mean that we endure a cross, but it means we put others before ourselves. 

How do you display your love? Christ displayed his on the cross.

You and I are called to show our love to the people around us through our actions rather than simply through words.

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

1 John 3:16-18

There is a hate-filled world in need of true, authentic love all around us. They need more than our words. They need us to love through our actions.

Will you put your love on display to a world that desperately needs it? How will you do this?

And even more than that, they need to see the love Christ displayed on the cross. Let us be men and women who faithfully proclaim God's Word, loving them as Christ loved. How can we, as believers, see the needs around us and close our hearts?