Have you ever played HORSE? A basketball game where you make a shot and then others have to make the same shot and if they miss they get a letter, H-O-R-S-E. The way I played the game as a youth went something like this: When a player has spelled HORSE as a result of missing shots they are out of the game but only after someone has PROVED that they can make that shot two times in a row.

            Proof is necessary not just in the game of HORSE but in almost everything. You have to prove you can drive in order to get a driver's license. You have to prove you can do a specific task before you get a job. You have to prove that someone is guilty of a crime. You get the idea. To prove means to give evidence; to show something to be true; to test the worth of or quality of, specifically: to compare against a standard.

            What proof do we give in our lives that we love the Lord? That we love one another? That we love the community in which we live? What evidence is there in our lives that love exists? Love is seen in what we do. Love is action. The title of the book I am reading right now by Bob Goff sums it up pretty well, "Love Does." Love does whatever is necessary

            What are you doing? What am I doing? What are we doing with the life we have been given to prove that Love Does? This month we will look to several passages of Scripture to help us answer these and other questions to help us live out the love God desires for us to have. Here is one Scripture for your reading today, 1 John 3:16-18, "This is how we’ve come to understand and experience love: Christ sacrificed his life for us. This is why we ought to live sacrificially for our fellow believers, and not just be out for ourselves. If you see some brother or sister in need and have the means to do something about it but turn a cold shoulder and do nothing, what happens to God’s love? It disappears. And you made it disappear. My dear children, let’s not just talk about love; let’s practice real love. (The Message)

            Love prays, love studies, love gives, love serves...Love Does!

Jason

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