Love Is...

Children often ask, "How much do you love me?  This big?"  

"Do you love me bigger than the sky?  To the moon and back?  As much as the sand on the beach, the stars in the sky?"

Sometimes adults ask the same thing.

There are some people who cannot say the words 'I love you,' but their actions speak louder than their words. 

There are some people who say the words 'I love you,' but their actions do not reflect the words they have just spoken.

And then there are those who can both speak and show love.

So what is real love?

1 Corinthians 13:4-8a tells us what love is, and what love is not:

    Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.

    Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

    Rejoiceth not in iniquity. but rejoiceth in the truth;

    Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

    Charity never faileth:

May my actions always back up my words, and may my words motivate my actions-

    But that's just me!

"I asked Jesus, 'How much do you love me?' 

    And Jesus said, 'This much!'

        Then He stretched out His arms and died."

            -Unknown