Love Deposits

Introduction: Are you making LOVE deposits?
 
Just like your checking account, we need to deliberately and intentionally add Love deposits to our relationship accounts.
It is very easy in this busy world to either forget or delay making these meaningful investments. 
 
Check out these Scriptural principles regarding this matter.
 

1. Loving one another! (John 13:35) – “By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.”

(1John 3:17,18,23) “But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth…. And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.”

There we have it. Loving others is the key to really loving God. Do you love others?

2. Loving God’s way! (1Cor 13:6,7) – “….Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth.”

This is the biblical definition of love? What is your definition of love?

3. Loving the Lord! (Matt 22:37,38) – “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”

Loving the Lord is probably easier than loving all of our neighbors, wouldn’t you think? Are there any neighbors that you don’t love?

Conclusion: Love deposits are a must. How are you doing? Make all the love deposits you can! Love shows, and love grows.
 
Love y’all,
Pastor Randy Reese