When You Can’t Find the Words to Say Part 4

Spiritual Commentary - Submitted by Mike Dzyndra.

This is our next installation of this series and it deals with when we fail to speak words of love. Failing to speak love is something that is brushed over in our society or addressed in a negative light. You see movies and hear music in which it is considered not masculine for a man to speak words of love. You also see in media this attitude that women are either overly “involved” in love (what the media defines as love) or women have become so insensitive to love that they forget about intimacy  and turn to a strictly sexual way of life. This is true for certain parts of our society. We have men and women who have lost the understanding of what love is and how it can influence them. Love has become a word in our language that has a lot of meanings but only people who know Christ can fully understand love. This is the purpose of the church. To go and make disciples by speaking/showing the love of Christ to everyone so they can truly understand love. The problem comes that there is a disconnect from what is convicted in people’s hearts and what actions they take.  So what you see even in Christian households is that fathers are not speaking words of love into their sons or daughters hearts. You have wives/mothers who have been hurt and become callused to acts of love. These are problems because it creates a cycle of un-lovingness. Sons and daughters hurt by failure on their parent’s behalf to show love in turn do not know how to express it to their future children or the world.  John 13:35 says, “By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have loved one another.”