{"id":5420,"date":"2015-01-16T16:24:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T16:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=5420"},"modified":"2015-01-16T16:24:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T16:24:03","slug":"do-you-really-love-or-just-think-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/5420\/do-you-really-love-or-just-think-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you really love, or just think it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most people judge themselves by what they think they are, within.\u00a0 In the Final Judgment, God will judge us all by what we have done.\u00a0 Whose judgment do you think will stand?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

You can flatter yourself by saying that you love people, but if you do not express love to those people in a way that makes them feel it, your “love” imaginary; it is worthless.\u00a0 In fact, it isn’t even real.\u00a0 Remember the words of this song; they are true:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

“A bell’s not a bell ’til you ring it.<\/em><\/span>
\nA song’s not a song ’til you sing it.<\/em><\/span>
\nLove in your heart wasn’t put there to stay;<\/em><\/span>
\nLove isn’t love ’til you give it away.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Now, go give your love away!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Aw, this is so good. After reading the section you sent yesterday on “Love” from the Father and Son book, the Father had the greatest love of all because His expression of love for us was that He gave His Son. Wonder how we would feel about Him if He did nothing?<\/span><\/p>\n

You can say that you love people in your head, think out a whole conversation, even play out a whole scene and think you’ve accomplished your goal, but until you actually do something, nobody ever knows! The other person or people know nothing. They are just waiting or wondering how you feel, and can eventually conclude that you just don’t care. It really means a lot to feel loved. The least we can do is express to one another the love that has been given to us – in action.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is good.<\/span>
\nAmy B<\/span><\/p>\n

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I love this, and Amy’s response too.\u00a0 It’s almost like the whole generation is playing video games in their heads and “doing” things that they never actually do.\u00a0\u00a0 I was thinking the other day, if some young people would be held accountable to present a list at night before they go to bed of everything that was physically DONE for them versus everything they DID to help someone else, it would be an eye-opener for them.<\/span><\/p>\n

God help us be and to train our children to give GIVERS and not TAKERS in the real world.\u00a0 It will make us very thankful and able to “see” those who are really contributing to our lives as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0te.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Yes, this is so true John.<\/span>
\n\u00a0<\/span>
\nIt may be very interesting<\/span> to compare the personal time young (and now old) people spend on “virtual” things\u00a0 (facebook, computer whizbang stuff, video games, etc.)\u00a0 vs. how much personal time is spent on REAL things – on real people…. work that actually accomplishes something real, that blesses, that betters other people’s lives in some real way. <\/span>
\n\u00a0<\/span>
\nNot saying we can’t do any of these things, but where do we really stand in this growing “virtual” world, where we have been warned that “love will grow cold”?\u00a0 What a challenge to us in this generation of ours.<\/span>
\n\u00a0<\/span>
\nGary<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most people judge themselves by what they think they are, within.\u00a0 In the Final Judgment, God will judge us all by what we have done.\u00a0 Whose judgment do you think will stand? You can flatter yourself by saying that you love people, but if you do not express love to those people in a way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}