"Love does no harm..." -Romans 13:10a
Love should be expressed. Love, and the ability to express it with words, is one of the greatest gifts God gave to humanity. All that is good, pure, and wholesome in this world is born of love.
Love should be shared. It may feel sacred and uncorrupted in the recesses of your heart, but no one will ever see its beauty or share its value if you never express it. Love was meant to be expressed.
Love is kind. It will put the well-being of the one you love above your own. Love does not seek its own.
Love is patient. It will suffer long, even suffer alone, in order to see the one you love come out on the other side as the victor. Love sees value where others don't.
Love forgives, even seventy times seven in one day. Love is merciful, full of grace, so much so, it often times sees no fault. Love won't tear down and destroy, but will build up and make whole.
Love is unselfish. Love will not express itself to the harm of another, nor will it withhold its expression to the harm of another. Love protects, it strengthens, it cares, and it is without hypocrisy. Love produces light and righteousness, not darkness and sin. Love truly does no harm to another.
Love is varied--yes, there is an untouched love between a husband and wife, but there is a different strength of love between a parent and child, an aunt or uncle and nephew or niece, a grandparent and grandchild, between friends, siblings, and even a friend who sticks closer than a brother, between a pastor and his sheep, between brothers and sisters in Christ, or a teacher and student.
Yet, there is a different depth of love between yourself and your Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. This love should be expressed to Him--weekly, daily, hourly. He has expressed His love to you through His Word, the Bible, and will even express His love to you, personally, through the Holy Spirit, in the quietness of your heart. This love fulfills and satisfies, making the heart happy and content. Love reverberated throughout the world when the Son of Man hung on that dark cross for our sins. It was the purest expression of love this world will ever see--Jesus was God's sole expression of love to humanity, and Jesus' sacrifice of Himself was His sole expression of love to you. If He saved you, and His love fills you, you have the responsibility, and joy, to share that love with others. Love is courageous, never taking, but always giving, even leading you to sacrifice your life for another.
Love is beautiful, and is nothing to be ashamed of. It is a gift given to the human heart--a touch of heaven graced in the shell of a human body. This light of heaven should be expressed to warm the soul of another. In the midst of the hate and chaos we find ourselves daily living in on earth, love is the only thing that is truly pure--an expression of God Himself--that makes life worth living for, makes all that is true, noble, and just worth fighting for, makes joy and even despair worth feeling, makes pain worth enduring, and celebrations worth sharing. All these things stem from the purity of love.
Whatever love is in your heart--express it--in your own way, with your own words, no matter how short or how long, how eloquent or how simple, only, let it come from your heart. Express what the Lord has written in your heart. Life is fragile--so live it with no regrets, knowing that when you come to the end of your life (whether it's today or a hundred years from now), you'll know you've expressed all the love that was ever gifted to your heart to give to others.
Love should always be expressed, time and time again, before this short life of ours comes to an end and we no longer have the chance to express our love. Even then, we who are safe in the saving arms of Jesus, live with the hope that one day we will be with the ones we love, face to face with our Lord, the Creator and Source of all our love ❤