The Proof of Your Love

"The Proof Of Your Love"

If I sing but don't have love
I waste my breath with every song
I bring an empty voice, a hollow noise
If I speak with a silver tongue
Convince a crowd but don't have love
I leave a bitter taste with every word I say

So let my life be the proof,
The proof of Your love
Let my love look like You and what You're made of
How You lived, how You died
Love is sacrifice
So let my life be the proof,
The proof of Your love

If I give To a needy soul but don't have love then who is poor?
It seems all the poverty is found in me

So let my life be the proof,
The proof of Your love
Let my love look like You and what You're made of
How You lived, how You died
Love is sacrifice
Oh, let my life be the proof,
The proof of Your love

When it's all said and done
When we sing our final song
Only love remains
Only love remains

Let my life be the proof,
The proof of Your love
Let my love look like You and what You're made of
How You lived, how You died
Love is sacrifice
So let my life be the proof,
The proof of Your love

This song, by For King & Country really spoke to me.

"If I give To a needy soul but don't have love then who is poor?
It seems all the poverty is found in me"

This song says that we can give to others all day long, but we are nothing if we don't have love. How humbling is that? It says that OUR life should prove His love. That is so true. WE are to live like him. WE are to show Him through our LOVE. 

This reminds me a lot of Nicaragua (yes, everything reminds me of Nica, I know...). Anyway, as many of you know, I fell in love with a kid named Misael. But he wasnt the only kid I fell in love with. There was a group that hung around me. Misael and Jairo being my favorites, plus some ADORABLE four-year-olds, and plenty more. Anyway, I stuck with them all week. I showed them LOVE. Most of the kids I hung around had great parents, not rich, but provided them with all they had. Even though these kids got love at home, they were so gracious of the love I gave them. Although this was a Christian-based mission trip, I didn't speak of Jesus much to the kids. They went to the children's church and learned, but I myself didn't do much teaching. One of the kids asked for a bible, and I found one for him, but thats about it. I just showed them love. On the last day, Misael wrote me a note, it said "I give thanks to God for bringing you here. I thank you for loving me, and I love you too. I hope we can meet again someday in this beautiful place." He learned about God...he saw God...not by be talking about it, but by me showing him God's love. 

We can change people's minds about God, not by pushing it down their throat, but by showing them God's unconditional love.