1 John 3:18 Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.
If your daily actions were the only sermon people ever heard, would they know you were a Christian by your love?
Holy scripture has much to say about how we use our words, for good reason. Words in speech can inspire, guide, and educate; they can also get us in boatloads of trouble and cause pain in others. Words have great power.
Big talk didn’t work out well at the Tower of Babel, and we see how God transforms egocentric babble to God-centered speech of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost.
In Ephesians, we read how idle talk and gossip have no place in the body of Christ. And now, in the first of three Johanine letters, the author reminds us that our actions, not our words, reveal our love for God, others, and ourselves.
We may say we love each other as God loves us, but do our words match our actions?
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