“So this is my prayer: that your love will flourish and that you will not only love much but well. Learn to love appropriately. You need to use your head and test your feelings so that your love is sincere and intelligent, not sentimental gush. Live a lover’s life, circumspect and exemplary, a life Jesus will be proud of: bountiful in fruits from the soul, making Jesus Christ attractive to all, getting everyone involved in the glory and praise of God.”
Have you read this? Â Have you really read this? Â This is Paul writing to the early Christians in what is now modern-day Greece — and by extension to each and every Christ-follower today — to live a life that speaks and looks like Jesus in action, i.e., love in action. Â The first and foremost exhortation is to love — but how? Â Not just lip-service love, nay, but love that is sincere and real. Make it real, people! Â When you look at a person and talk with them, make it real! Â And go a step more: Â show how your words can take the shape of action to help the other. Â Reflect the greatest lover of all, Jesus, i.e., God incarnate. Â Like Paul says, this is my prayer for you too, even as it is for myself!
