One of the things that Joyce says on the
tape is that people used to come up to her and hug her and
say, "Hi, how are you doing? Jesus loves you. Got to rush,
bye". Joyce says that one day she told someone, "Well,
that’s not enough. I need someone to put their arms around
me and prove that Jesus Loves me".
We can tell people that Jesus Loves them
but if we never do anything to prove it by our actions and
not just words they are not going to believe us. We need to
demonstrate the Love of Jesus and not just tell them that He
Loves them.
When is the last time that you went up to
someone and hugged that person? When is the last time you
shut the television off and picked up the telephone and
called someone that you knew was lonely and needed to hear a
friendly voice?
Let me encourage you to not only tell
people Jesus Loves them, prove to them Jesus Loves them by
the way you act toward them. Yes, it might be inconvenient
and not in our daily schedule for us to do these things but
I am sure it was not convenient for Jesus to hang on that
cross for us. He did it to prove that He Love us.
