Showing Reality

With snow gently falling I was reviewing the Christmas story and something about it stood out. It deals with our relationship with God, but should also be applied to all relationships.

In the Christmas story many people knew, heard about and even proclaimed the fact that the Savior was born. The thing that set some people apart is that they acted on what they new and proclaimed. They demonstrated their faith and love for God through their actions. More than hearing us proclaim something, God wants to see us live out our love and faith this Christmas season. Everyone who truly worship the Savior who had been born during that first Christmas demonstrated it through sacrifice. What can we do, what can we sacrifice to show that our stated faith and love for God is real?

Now applying that to our relationship. Yes, people like to hear our profession of love, but if that is all that we do our words are empty. However, if we accompany those words with action of sacrificial love, we will see lives changed. So what can/ should we do, what can/should we sacrifice to show that our stated compassion and love for others is real?