How To Say I Love You

This won't take me long at all!!  It is very simple.  In the same way we don't get to choose how we love God, we also don't get to choose how we love others; especially those closest to us.  You can tell someone "I Love You" until the cows come home but if they aren't feeling loved, it's pointless.

Here is the model we should go by.  God loved us first and made a HUGE sacrifice in giving his son to die for us.  So, he chose to die first.  Then he asked us to receive the sacrifice that would ultimately set us free.  Then he gave us instructions on how to live but more importantly how to love.  He didn't say this method was optional.  He basically said this is how I will know you love me by doing the following things.

It should be the same in our relationships.  We should be finding out what makes those closest to us feel loved and then love them that way.  In doing this we will first sacrifice who we are because we for sure won't always feel like it.  We will be dying to ourselves in order that they might feel accepted, valued, loved and free.

Here is the beauty in it all.  When we begin loving people the way they feel loved (our spouses), there love tanks get filled and they begin overflowing love right back in the way we feel loved.  God knew this would happen and he also knew that with this model, we would all begin looking like Christ right here on earth.  That is purpose fulfilled at it's best!!