Love is shown by action

“Dear children, let us stop just saying we love each other; let us really show it by our actions.” (1 John 3:18 NLT)

Love is more than a feeling

Many pop songs say that love is a feeling. But, by this standard, when feelings are gone, then love is gone. But love is more than feelings, more than  attraction and more than sentimentality. Love is an action; love is a behavior. Many times in the Bible, God commands us to love each other. That’s because it’s something we are to do. Notice in the above verse that He tells us to love by our actions. That’s because love is something you do.

This is how you’re to “do” love

“Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” (1 Cor. 13:4-7 ESV)

Therefore, do the following

“Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.” (1John 3:18 ESV)

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” (John 14:15 ESV)

“Let all that you do be done in love.” (1 Cor. 16:14 ESV