How true that really is. Love is a great example of not seeing and believing. You can’t see love, but you know its real. 
Although you can see actions that represent love, you can’t “see” love like you can see a flower.
Love is hard to describe because its not only a feeling, but an action, a thought, and so many other things rolled into one. Often, we know the definition of love, but living it out is what really brings the true meaning and understanding of it to us.
We all know the Love chapter, but have you really pondered it? It tells us that:
1 Corinthians 13:1-4
“I may speak in the tongues of men, even angels; but if I lack love, I have become merely blaring brass or a cymbal clanging. I may have the gift of prophecy, I may fathom all mysteries, know all things, have all faith – enough to move mountains; but if I lack love, I am nothing. I may give away everything that I own, I may even hand over my body to be burned; but if I lack love, I gain nothing.
If we don’t have love in our actions, they are nothing. How do we know what love is though and what can we do to display it? Well the Scriptures are magnificent because they not only tell us what things aren’t, but they tell us what they are and how we can do them!
1 Corinthians 13:4-8, 13
Love is patient and kind, not jealous, not boastful, not proud, rude or selfish, not easily angered, and it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not gloat over other people’s sins but takes its delight in the truth. Love always bears up, always trusts, always hopes, always endures.
Love never ends; but prophecies will pass, tongues will cease, knowledge will pass. But for now, three things last trust, hope, love; and the greatest of these is love.“
In doing all those things, we have love. We will also have love by having God’s Holy Spirit in our lives:
Galatians 5:22-23
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, humility, self control. Nothing in the Torah stands against such things.“
Something that caught my eye is that love is patient, patience is a fruit of the Spirit and so is love… Isn’t is so great how they intertwine with one another? If we only took those two virtues and lived by them, we would be so happy in our lives!
Even knowing what love is in that aspect, I think sometimes its hard to grasp the concept of what love is. As humans, we have to see things to know their real. You wouldn’t believe me if I told you that I saw horse talking would you? No! that’s ridiculous. But Peter reminds us that we love without seeing:
1 Peter 1:8
“Without having seen him, you love him. Without seeing him now, but trusting in him, you continue to be full of joy that is glorious beyond words.“
We love the Savior without ever seeing him. When we think about that statement, we get a double meaning… Yeshua is love and we love Yeshua without seeing him. We can’t see love, but we know its there. How do we know that Yeshua is love, you may ask? Well that is clearly explained:
Romans 5:8
“But God demonstrates his own love for us in that the Messiah died on our behalf while we were still sinners.“
God sent Yeshua to show us His love for us and in doing so Yeshua became God’s love for us and we all know that:
John 15:13
“No one has greater love than a person who lays down his life for his friends.“
Yeshua showed us the ultimate way of showing love: to give yourself up for someone. That is the true meaning of love. Yeshua told us another way we can show our love for God:
John 14:15
“If you love me, you will keep my commands;”
John 14:21
“Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me, and the one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.”John 15:10
“If you keep my commands, you will stay in my love — just as I have kept my Father’s commands and stay in his love.“
By following God’s word and His commandments, we will show our love to Him. I want so much for everything I do to show my love for my God.
We have to have an understanding of what love truly is before we can go off and say “I love you” to people. Love is a feeling and a thought, but more importantly it is an action. Arianna has a great example of how her actions helped her learn to love someone:
I think love is actions. Feelings and emotions play a small role in love, but it’s really all about what you do.This year God has really taught me to love someone who, I didn’t exactly consider an ‘enemy’ but was definitely someone I disliked. And if I would have tried to love that person with my FEELINGS, I would still hold bitterness and unforgiveness in my heart towards that person, and wouldn’t love that person in any way. But by loving that person though my ACTIONS, I’ve been able to forgive the person and treat him the way God wants me to.
“Actions speak louder than words” rings so true when it comes to love. We can say we love someone or something, but if we don’t show them we love them by our actions, they won’t know that we truly do love them! Christ showed us that He loved us through His actions and we must do the same. When you go out, do people know you are a Christian? The Scriptures tell us how everyone will know that we are disciples. Through our actions and love, the world will know that:
John 13:35
“Everyone will know that you are my talmidim by the fact that you have love for each other.“
We are to love one another, so we can be an example for Christ! Through our love for each other, the world will know that Christ is love!
1 John 4:7
“Beloved friends, let us love one another; because love is from God; and everyone who loves has God as his Father and knows God.”
1 John 4:12
“No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God remains united with us, and our love for him has been brought to its goal in us.”
1 Peter 1:22
“Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth, so that you have a sincere love for your brothers, love each other deeply, with all your heart.”
2 Thessalonians 1:3
“and the love you each have for one another continues to increase.“
Do people know you are a Christian by your love for one another? I pray that through the way I act and how I treat others that they will know I am a Christian by my love and that I can live up to:
Philippians 2:15
“So that you may be blameless and pure children of God, without defect in the midst of a twisted and perverted generation, among whom you shine like stars in the sky.“
I want my love to shine as a light for all the world to see, so they will know what love truly is and that is Yeshua the Savior!
Love Is Not A Fight but it sure is something we need to fight for! It’s so easy to lose love in this world, but we must not! If we end up losing it, we become in danger of losing Christ who is love.
Lovingly,
©AmandaDixon2009
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July 27th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Oh, Amanda! I love this post…my favorite thus far.
The word ‘love’ is thrown around so easily that it doesn’t have as much meaning anymore. I have the same desire as you, to show the love that I have for my Savior in my daily actions. Thought-provoking post…thank you!
*BIG HUGS*
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July 27th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Loving people has never really been that hard of a problem for me but I’m so terrible with being patient! And it’s so interesting and challenging for me to think that love is patience.
I know that’s is something that you have to deal with too. So I’m praying you find peace in this too!
Love and hugs,
Ellie
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July 27th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Your entry reminded me of a song that we use to sing when I first got saved 25 years ago. It went like this……They will know we are Christians by our Love, by our Love, Yes, they’ll know we are Christians by our Love…. What a better Testimony of The Love that Our Father has for His Children than for us to show His Love to The Unsaved. What a POWERFUL witness you are to the unsaved.
Love you and your family,
Mrs. L
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July 27th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Man, what a collection of verses you have here. I’ve always loved John 15:13. That one says it all.
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July 28th, 2009 at 12:13 am
Wonderful post, Amanda. I love the verses and the photo of LucyLillie holding the flowers. I remember when you took that.
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July 28th, 2009 at 11:29 am
Awesome post Amanda! so true
love the picture 
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July 28th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
What a great post!
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July 29th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Great post Amanda! I agree. Love is a verb!
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July 29th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Great post. Funny how I just posted on this topic. Love is such a big topic we could have every blogger write on it and still not cover everything. lol
Have a blessed day,
Erik B.
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August 5th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
AWWW!!! Is that Lulie? Great pic.
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