This is the weekend when we celebrate romantic love. It’s it amazing that we use the word love in so many different ways. You can love chocolate ice cream, love running, love your Iphone or Ipad, love pizza and you love your spouse. We also use that same word when we talk about God. We love God. God loves us. God is Love (I John 4:16). You can see that not only is love a noun, it is also a verb. Because love can be a noun, it is something that we want to attain. But because love is a verb, it is an action word. That means that if you really love someone, you get to prove it by your actions. (That can definitely be taken the wrong way, but in the right context, it is totally godly.) If you love your wife, you will tell her, but you’ll also show her by how you act. The two go hand in hand, words and deeds. Like bread and butter, like flowers and springtime, like pieces of a puzzle love and deeds fit together. If you want to show love to your friends (phileo love is friendship love), you can be kind, and speak uplifting words to them, and make a choice to help and encourage them. If you love God, you will obey His commandments (I John 5:3). If you need a reminder of what God’s Commandment’s are, they are really simply summed up in two things and encompass all of life. Love God with all your heart, mind and strength, and love your neighbor (everybody else) as yourself. When we love God with all that we are, and love those around us through our words and actions, then there will be evidence that we are growing spiritually! Let’s be doers of the Word, and put a priority where God puts His priorities.