What Action Has Followed Your Love?

Luke 7:5
because he loves our nation and has built our synagogue.”

Love is not abstract it translates into action. Love is not just what you feel it is also seen in what you do. Where there is love, there is action to express it. What action has followed your love?

When love is proclaimed, it is verified by action. Where love shows up, some action will shortly demonstrate itself. Love itches and troubles the one loving that they can’t help demonstrating it. What action has followed your love?

John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

When God loved the world He gave His only son. The action followed love. The book of Romans cited above tells us that God demonstrated His love. Unless love is demonstrated, it is fake. God demonstrated His love for us. Action follows love. What action has followed your love?

2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

Because God loves us, He is patient with us. The action following love is patience. We get irritated by people we don’t love. We are patient with the mistakes of our children, we persevere and help them learn to walk and talk. Love is demonstrated in patience. We quickly punish and write off those we love less or don’t love. Do you love? Is it demonstrated in patience? If we are self-centered in a relationship, we get impatient as we demand things to go our way. Patience is one of the actions that follow true love. What action has followed your love?

Our text today is about a Roman Centurion who had a favorite servant who was very sick. The Centurion heard and knew that Jesus could heal his servant. The Centurion sent Jewish leaders to plead with Jesus to go heal that servant. Jewish leaders told Jesus in our text today that the Centurion loved the Jewish nation and had demonstrated it by building a Synagogue. This was true love. He built a Synagogue he wasn’t going to worship in. When you do things that will also benefit you, it may look like love but it is veiled selfishness. This man built a Synagogue he wasn’t going to worship in. The Centurion demonstrated love by actions. What action has followed your love?

Jesus warned against helping people who can help you back, Luke 6:34. Scratch my back I scratch your back is not love, it is business, it is barter trade. The Centurion expected nothing back for building that Synagogue. The Jews he loved confessed to Jesus that the Centurion loved them. If you demonstrate love, the object of your love will take note that they are loved. Action follows love. What action has followed your love?

To love someone in order to get a marriage partner is not true love. It is using the other person. Marriage partners should come from natural friendships that expected nothing in return. Friendships that did not focus on marriage or taking care of the loneliness. Friendships that were love action expecting nothing in return. When we begin a relationship with an aim of getting married, we miss out on friendship. When a relationship is all about marriage, people will pretend and role-play to qualify, after the wedding true colors come out and trouble begins.

When a relationship is about sex, it will end in disappointment. Whenever you meet you have sex. Gifts and money come after sex. All discussions are about sex. Without sex, there is nothing more to it. If it is mutual it is prostitution it is still sin and will end in pain. If it is not mutual someone will soon get hurt and it is still sinning. Sex is not always lovemaking, sometimes it is masturbation using another person you least care about and anyone else could fit the role.

The Centurion loved the Jewish nation and he demonstrated it in love that was not to be reciprocated. The Centurion loved his servant and he demonstrated it by seeking healing services for him. He could let him die and he could hire another worker, but he loved him. Where there is love there is selfless action. What selfless action has followed your love?

If we love God, actions like worship attendance, participation, and giving of tithe and offering would follow naturally. We struggle with these things because we don’t love God. It’s fake love. We are using God to get blessings and avoid hell. Is our love for God selfless?

If our love for God is selfless then we would not pray to God claiming blessings while referring to what we have done. Bless me because I have served You. Heal me because all my years I have been faithful to You. Help me because I never miss church. How can God let me suffer yet I give tithes and offerings? True love is selfless, it expects nothing back. Job expected nothing back. Abraham expected no child back. Can you love God and expect nothing from Him. What selfless action has followed your love for God?

What if we loved each other selflessly? Wouldn’t our marriages be fine? Wouldn’t our relationships be sweet? What causes pain is expectations. We do things with expectations. When expectations are not met we get hurt. What if we just loved without expectations or reciprocate action? Wouldn’t that be sweet? What selfless action has followed your love relationships?

Selfish love comes with conditions. The love of God is unconditional. Our marriage partners should not be loved with conditions. Our actions for love should not be pegged on something the other person does or does not do. We should love as God has loved us, John 13:34. We should love God without conditions. We should love God whether He blesses us or not. If He saves us, we love Him. If He doesn’t save us, we still love Him, Daniel 3:17-18 and Job 13:15. Our partners, fiancees, and friends will appreciate the love that comes without conditions and that will make them love back in equal kind.

God loves us without condition, but if we reject His love, after some time, we will be destroyed forever because we will not be happy to eternally live with Him. We can love without condition, but if a partner, a fiancee, or a friend totally rejects that love that has been demonstrated in your patience, a time comes when we must let them go as a demonstration of love. Love is always demonstrated in actions. Action follows love. What action has followed your love?

Dear God, help me to love you and others in a selfless manner. May selfless actions always follow my love for God and others, in Jesus’ name, Amen!

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