♥ Love ♥

If I say I love but do not play with her, hold her, feed her, talk to her, sing to her, cuddle her, comfort her, kiss her, change her, bathe her, what sort of love is that? A mere emotional feeling is not the same as love. Love acts, it moves, it goes beyond itself, ever reaching out, ever moving forward, ever engaging and partaking. It is not static, and if it retreats, is it real at all?

If God says He is love but never moves beyond the words into action, what sort of "love" would that be? And yet it is clear by looking at the story of God's presence in the world as recorded in the Bible and witnessed throughout the ages that He does indeed love, and He is indeed love, for we find that this God is ever engaging with humanity, reaching out to us, drawing us near to Himself, clothing us, cleaning us, feeding us, giving us meaning, providing us with relationship, teaching us, talking to us, singing over us, holding us, and in every way making it possible (if we so choose to accept) for us to experience the love He is.