Identify true love.

Sunday, February  19th.
Identify true love.

“And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.”
Genesis 34:3

Do you know that the way you talk to anyone reveals whether you love them or not? Love can be revealed or expressed through words. You will notice from our opening scripture that the young man spoke kindly to Dinah the daughter of Jacob because he loved her. His love was obvious in his words.

Is your love obvious to your wife or your husband from your words? Can we judge from your words spoken to them or about them that you truly love them? If someone says he or she loves you and they always talk you down with their words, they always speak harshly to you, they never speak kindly to you neither do they add value to you with their words, the truth is that they do not really love you. Maybe they love your body, your gifts or your money. They do not truly love you from the heart.

Someone may lie to you that they love you, do not just get carried away because he or she said, “I love you.” Test that love with time and see if their words will always be kind. If their words to you or about you over time does not obviously reveal their love for you by adding value to you they do not truly love you from the heart. Jesus proves this to be true by saying in Matthew 12:34, “O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.”

Prayer.
Dear Father, teach me to know how I ought to answer every man always. Let my words always be gracious, pleasant and winsome, seasoned as it were with salt that it may give grace and value to them that hear me, in Jesus' Name. Amen.

For further study, read:
Proverbs 15:1, Proverbs 15:4, Proverbs 16:24.

Doing the Word.
Speak kindly and politely.