How Loud is your Love?

I may be just ranting here. But I have heard people say, actions speak louder than words.

But it seems in today’s church environment of ours, all we ever do is at most sing out lives of love to God. Maybe it is just that our culture that hinders us from freely expressing our love to God — in action.

We love because He first loved us. And thus, love flows from God into our lives, and it simply shouldn’t end there. From our hearts, our “cups runeth over”. Love flows out from our hearts, out of our mouths, and spills over through our bodies into action — holy and acceptable spiritual worship to the Lord. In our hands, in our feet, and in our faces — our behavior becomes humble acts of worship: actions of love; love in actions.

More than just words of love to God, over these last few months I’m really beginning to embrace worship in action. Not just songs or melodies and harmonies, it is simply not enough to express my self-worthless-ness and God’s worthiness in songs and words. Worship must be more than just the “heart”, for our feelings must overflow to deeds. Like faith without actions is futile and worthless, so also is love without actions.

The same goes for the words we say to each other.

Words cannot fully express what the heart feels and mind knows: we ought to show it in how we treat each other and live with one another. Just as the Apostle Paul would say, Christians are called to build up brothers and sisters in Christ with honorable intentions — striving to “outdo one another in showing honor” (Romans 12:10).

“Preach the gospel at all times — and if necessary, use words.”

(It is always necessary — Romans 10)