love

I've discovered lately that too many people put emphasis on the fact that love is expressed only through sex.  It's not.  I actually feel sad for those who believe this.  Love is something that is expressed by the way we treat each other, by the way we SHOULDN'T treat other, and as Josh Harris puts it, "by self-control, patience and even words left unsaid."  Love is not a one-size fits all kind of program.  It's shown in various forms.  God expresses His loves in more ways than I will ever be able to recall.  One way, at least for me, that God shows His love for me is when I sit and I am just listening and He talks to me the way that I have known my Earthly father to talk with me.  He shares with me His love for me and His plans for my life (not necessarily in detail).  I feel comfort when things are horribly wrong; I feel happiness when I have done nothing but enjoy His creation; I feel love when I need someone to hold me.  He is everything to me.  Notice He does not express His love in the superficial ways that many humans think that love needs to be expressed.  He is the best way to find out what Love is all about. 

For me, loving God is loving others before myself.  Serving them the way that He has called me to serve.  I will screw up.  There is no getting around it.  But, showing them who God is by the way I react, or treat them, or care for them, even giving them the best of whatever it may be, and I take the second hand.  An example of the last is something simple even, taking the back seat and giving them the front seat of the car.  Not giving yourself the best.  Newsflash, you already have the best.  You are just able to show others what that is by the way that you love them.  It's amazing the response that you may get when someone notices.  Now remember, you don't want them to notice something YOU did.... it's what God is doing.  You are just being used to show who He is.  When someone says, "You are such a sweet person for doing that."  I just reply, "Thank you."  I always thank God that they were able to see Him through something so simple.  You never have to "go big or go home."  You can show God through the little things and people will be just as impressed.... with God.  Being humble is what Jesus did.  He was on this Earth to put Himself below others.  He was a humble man.  He did not proclaim it, He just was.  He referred back to God when someone commented on Him.  It wasn't Him, it was God.  I know that if He had the choice, He would not have died on the cross for us.  I mean, He did pray that it be taken away from Him if there was another way.  But, because He chose to follow God, He did as God asked.  He loved God so He loved us to die for us.  THAT is Love.