How do you show your love? Or do you only voice your love? Is your love demonstrated through your actions? Or do your words ring hollow? Do you think love is shown by giving gifts? Or do you make an effort to show your love by serving others?
Love can be challenging for some people to show. Some believe telling someone they love them is enough. Others may rarely say they love someone yet will demonstrate their love through action. We all like to hear someone loves us and also want to see it in their actions.
Tabitha, or Dorcas as she was also known, was a woman who demonstrated her love for people through her actions. She was a follower of Jesus. Her love for God shown through in what she did for others. In her good works and giving to others, she demonstrated her love for others and for God. She was a seamstress who made both inner and outer garments. We can reasonably assume that she gave some of the clothing she made to those in need. She likely also used the money she made from her business to help in other ways.
Though Scripture does not state she was a widow, she may have been since we are told those who took care of her when she died were widows. There may have been a group of widows who had banded together to take care of one another. Their care for her and weeping over her indicates how much they loved her.
We are called to love others as Jesus loves us. Jesus tells us He loves us but also demonstrated His love for us through His actions. We may only think of His love demonstrated on the cross. Yet we need to look at how He treated people when He walked this earth. He showed His love by forgiving them, feeding them, healing them, and even raising some from the dead. As a follower of Jesus, we are to demonstrate our love for Him by serving others. Just as Jesus served in many ways, we can serve in many ways.
I pray we all take a deeper look at how Jesus served. I pray we understand all the ways Jesus showed His love for us. I pray each one of us chooses to show our love by serving others. See how Jesus served. Understand how Jesus shows His love. Demonstrate your love by your actions.
Acts 9:36 Now in Joppa there was a disciple whose name was Tabitha, which in Greek is Dorcas. She was devoted to good works and acts of charity.
Marty Pressey 