True Sense of the Word

Why is it so easy to say we love and so hard to show it? Perhaps it is because we are at our core terribly self-absorbed. We are so concerned with having our own needs and wants met throughout the day that any love we have is left as a feeling and not an action. Yet showing love is what we, as Christians, should be all about.

"Where Love is, God is. He that dwelleth in Love dwelleth in God. God is Love. Therefore love. Without distinction, without calculation, without procrastination, love. Lavish it upon the poor, where it is very easy;
especially upon the rich, who often need it most; most of all upon our equals, where it is very difficult, and for whom perhaps we each do least of all. There is a difference between trying to please and giving pleasure. Give pleasure. Lose no chance of giving pleasure; for that is the ceaseless and anonymous triumph of a truly loving spirit."

--from The Greatest Thing in the World by Henry Drummond