Language of Love

The Universal Language is Love

Have you ever met someone and sensed something different about them that draws you to want to know them? Or have you ever felt a unique connection with someone and wondered what it could be that makes that connection so different from others? It's a blessed feeling isn't it? It's one that is nearly impossible to describe with human language. I consider these types of connections gifts from God, and I am humbled by how many of these gifts He has blessed me with.

Just what is this "language" that is spoken in these amazingly unique relationships? Well, I have pondered this over and over as I have encountered each special connection in my life, and I am sure of one thing: it is the language of Love.

So......what is Love? Is it a human emotion? Is it our human emotion of love that connects us with certain people? I know that the emotion of love is a factor, but what about those people that we don't even know, yet are drawn to? It has to be something more than human emotion that connects us. It is something that we see or sense within them. Love is, in this case, a part of them. It is In them.

I believe Love is the actual Spirit of God that moves in these beautiful connections that we encounter.

In Genesis 11, we learn that the people of God at one time spoke one language and common speech, but it wasnt necessarily the language of love. They communicated in human language with human thoughts and desires. They decided to build a city in the form of a tower that reached to the heavens so that they could "make a name for themselves and not be scattered all over the earth". They made the tower of bricks, rather than stone. Man made bricks verses stone from the earth. Man made desires verses the plan of God, which was for them to reach out to the world with His love. The consequences? God confused their language so they could not understand each other, and then He scattered them throughout the earth. The only common language from the beginning of time was and is Love.

Now, fast forward to Pentocost. This is when after Jesus' death and resurrection, the Holy Spirit was first sent to indwell those who belong to Christ. In Acts 2:4 it says that as the the disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit, they began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. As the people gathered around, from all walks of life (so to speak), heard, they were astonished to actualy be able to understand what the apostles were saying because they were speaking in languages native to each group of people----not just the Jews, but also the Gentiles. Do you see what was happening? God was using language to bring mankind back together. He was using the language of His Spirit to connect those who had been separated from Him by man-made walls of judgement and favoritism, because Jesus died for sinners from all walks of life. Those who receive His gift of salvation, receive His indwelling Spirit. His Holy Spirit draws man to Him through the common language of Love, and connects us with an unspeakable understanding of Him and one another.

I wonder how many times I have turned people away from wanting to know God because of my inability to share that universal language of Love? If only we could just see others through the eyes of God.....we would reach out to them with the Spirit of love instead of the spirit of judgement or condemnation. After all, we all share one common factor......as mankind, we all share the same flaw.....we are human and we have been tainted by the nature of sin since the beginning of time. Not one of us is free of it. So.....who are we to look down upon one another fom our so-called towers of "godliness"? The truth is, the only way that we can truly be one with others is to be one in the Spirit of God, sharing the one common language.....the language of love. And for those who do not yet know the Spirit of God yet? Well, one thing is for sure, they will surely understand His love through us, because Love is the universal language. Oh how I pray that I can speak with a tongue that only forms words of love and goodness. And when my tongue is silent, let my actions speak louder than words, in the beautiful dialect of the Spirit Himself, connecting me to others of His choosing. Because when we are connected by the Spirit of the Lord, we are gifted with the most precious blessings of all......Eternal understanding, and Eternal relationship with Him and others.