Is your love for the Lord expressed more by your words than your actions?

"My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth."





— 1 John 3:18








Have you ever felt like a spiritual failure? If so, then you're in good company. Even the apostle Peter felt that way after he denied the Lord.





When Jesus told the disciples they would abandon Him in His hour of need, Peter insisted that he never would. But Jesus said that Peter would deny Him three times before the rooster crowed that day. And he did.





Now, Peter finds himself in an awkward moment. Jesus was crucified and had risen on the third day. He suddenly appears to them at the Sea of Galilee. Before they knew it, Jesus was cooking breakfast for everyone with the fish He had just helped them catch. Maybe as they ate, Peter was remembering when, not all that long ago, he denied the Lord by the glow of another fire.





Eventually, the Lord breaks the silence. He asks Peter a series of questions, each with the same phrase: "Do you love Me?"





Peter had learned his lesson. Instead of boasting of his love for the Lord, he simply answers, "Yes Lord; You know that I love you" (John 21:15–17). In the original language, the word Peter used for "love" was phileo. It could be translated, "have an affection for."





At least Peter was being honest. We can talk all day about how much we love God, but never act on it. Peter eventually proved his love for the Lord. A leader in the early church and the writer of two New Testament epistles, he reportedly was crucified upside-down as a martyr for his faith.





How about you? Is your love for the Lord expressed more by your words than your actions?

Is your love for the Lord expressed more by your words than your actions?
Well, we show our family members that we love them by our actions. You can say "I love you" all day long, but if your actions don't show it or if they say something else, it means nothing.





So I believe that I should show the Lord that I love Him by following His example and being obedient to the commandments. I'm far from perfect, but I try.
Reply:Dave--I'm quite certain that you for example live by what you say you believe so I wouldn't question that but I would rather focus on the dynamics wherein you frame your question however.





For instance, you probably believe that we all have to "serve somebody or some God" without any choice otherwise, and to that I would say that my "Lord" is nature itself since I am bound by its laws whether I like it or not.





So are you by the way as is everyone else.





To "serve" this Lord of which I am referring to we do so by existing and being subject to its laws and the real question is a matter of purpose which is the subject of all religions..





Just my two points ..
Reply:Actions. We are supposed to be known for our love for one another.

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