Good morning, world. Things are looking pretty good from the front porch of my farm in Virginia today. I woke up with excitement about this new day and I ran to meet with my God like a child on a Christmas morning. I couldn’t wait to sit in His presence and I couldn’t wait to pour out my heart to Him. I couldn’t wait to commit this new day to Him and I couldn’t wait to thank Him for all that He is and all that He does for me. What an amazing God I serve. Though He sets the earth on it’s axle and He knows every star in the sky by name…though He has plenty of Rules in place and He expects me to follow them…though He planted me here for a Big Purpose and I have a Long List of things to do in His Name; what He REALLY wants, is me and my heart. With the right heart everything else just falls into place. Isn’t that the way you look at your heart too?

It’s often said that “actions speak louder than words” and there is a whole lot of truth to that; especially when it comes to love. Saying “I love you” comes easy to most of us, but our actions often don’t measure up with the words. We’re selfish creatures by nature, and love easily goes to the back-burner when we focus more on ourselves and our own needs above the needs of another. When two people meet and fall in love, they can’t say “I love you enough” and they work so hard to express their love in every way imaginable…because the love is new and the heart overflows. But for most of those lovebirds, even though the words can continue to flow over time; all those expressions that helped drive the love-message home in the beginning are set aside for routine. They neglect to do those “special things” to express love, as if showing the other no longer matters at all. And for this one reason alone, there are far too many lovebirds that don’t sustain the journey. There may be only one word in the English language to describe the heart, but there are millions of things the heart leads us to do when the condition is right, and the heart is nurtured the way it’s intended to be….and the same is true when it comes to our love for the Living God. We can SAY we love Him all day long, but do our actions measure up with the words? “Actions ALWAYS speak louder than words”.

I love my God even more today than I did when I first Met Him; but that doesn’t happen just by accident with Him no more than it does with the lovebirds. I don’t set Him aside for routine things or for things I’d rather be doing than spending time with Him, and I’m always eager to please Him. I don’t take Him for granted as if He will always be there no matter what I do or say, and I strive to be the best that I can be for Him every single day. Our Relationship is a priority for me and it shows. I never want to risk it getting “old”, and I surely don’t want the love that I had for Him from the very beginning to ever fade. So, more than just telling Him I love Him, I show Him too. He knows He’s my priority and I work hard so that my actions measure up with the words I speak to Him. The same steps that it takes to sustain a couple of lovebirds for the long-run, applies even MORE to my God. I don’t just tell Him I love Him…I show Him I love Him because my actions will always speak louder to Him than my words.

How about you?