Love... Is Active

Let us not love with words or speech, but with actions and in truth.

1 John 3:18 (NIV)

Talk is cheap. Love costs. Love sacrifices. Love acts. Love performs. Love gives… regardless!

'For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life' (John 3:16).

Love isn’t what we say. It’s what we do. Love isn’t how we feel. It’s what we do.

Actors, models, and talent for Christ:

As performers, LOVE is your leading act, direction, and audience-attractor! It’s the most important role of your life.

Your casting call was planned BEFORE YOUR BIRTH. You were known, gifted, and called by the Lord as a key prequel to Earth’s finale.

NOTE: All acts before the promised conclusion have been hard on all the players involved. Hard to live. Hard to love, and hard to watch. But at the Lord’s prescribed moment in time, His Own Son made a surprise appearance. His entrance and exit changed everything! It was…

  • An amazingly perfect performance,

  • With a supporting cast some called “misfits”,

  • A ruthless, behind-the-scenes opponent,

  • “Religious” men who misled God’s people,

  • Invading warlords, who did awful things,

  • Hopeless victims, not knowing where to turn!

  • They wandered like sheep, without a shepherd.

It was a crushing, glorious drama with a brilliant, uplifting second act. SOON, Christ will come back for the finale. Therefore…

Actors, models, and talent for Christ:

Remember the role you were born to play!

Your action plan? Keep performing DAILY. Rehearse diligently, smile tenderly, walk lovingly, read and re-read His Script. Keep 2 lines in mind as you walk this path:

  1. If 'Faith without works is dead' (James 2:26), love without works (actions) is just as dead!

  2. ‘If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal’ 1 Corinthians 13:1).

Love… Is Active (Part 27)

NOTE: God is my Ghostwriter. If what I write is good, it’s from God! We’re all called to be actors (action stars) for Jesus. We’re all called to models of Jesus, and we all have gifts, talents, and a commission to multiply them in the world for His glory.

P.S. NO DEVOTION, PREACHER, or SERMON… can begin to replace personal time in the Bible. I wholeheartedly and clear-headedly recommend DAILY BIBLE READING.

WARNING: Don’t focus on your favorite verses, because taken out of context, they’re often misinterpreted. I plead with you to READ AT LEAST 1 BIBLE CHAPTER DAILY. How long does it take? An average of 5 to 10 minutes!

Carey Arban