Actions speak Louder than words. It is so true, isn’t it? Whether it’s in relationships with a boyfriend/husband or how our political leaders act or parents are? Actions always mean more to us as a society than words do. I’m not saying words aren’t powerful, because they definitely are, but without actions to back up those words there just empty words right? . . .
For example, if a husband or boyfriend tells his wife/girlfriend he loves her, but then abuses her or is an adulterer then obviously those words he uses to express his love aren’t really backed up with true love. If he were a loyal man who was a devoted leader to his wife/ girlfriend those would be the right actions to show his love towards her.
Another example is our political leaders. For example, many people voted for Barak Obama because of his amazing way of speaking and how comfortable with only his words and safe he made some of the American people feel. He uses great rhetoric when speaking, but since his presidency many of those same people who voted for him do not feel the same warm, fuzzy feeling they once felt about him and claim that his actions do not reflect his words and what he said he was going to do. People are mad, hurt, angry. . .
Our parents . . . If you ever got in trouble when you were younger or even now, lol, and your parents yelled at you and grounded you, but never backed up that grounding and went through with it you would think you could get away with anything right? If their cycle was always yelling and threatening punishment but never backing that punishment up and following through with it, it would be easy for us as children not to obey knowing the consequences would never really be there . . .
As Christians we say all the time we love God and we talk about Him to others and tell others our views on Christ and what He means to us and we talk and talk and talk, or blog and blog and blog, whatever it is we do . . . but are our actions backing up our words? I look at myself and I hope that for the most part to whoever is reading this that my actions back up my words, but I also know how many times I can fall short and not let me actions reflect what I say and if I think about it, it’s such a powerful thing. If a non-believer sees me act not in accordance with what I say that can ruin my testimony so much. . . Have you ever heard the story of Marilyn Manson? The ‘Prince of Darkness’, he went to a ‘Christian’ school and this school claimed to be a school full of believers and people who followed after Christ, but the kids in that school just outcaste Manson and look where he is today . . It really makes you think. If someone had acted like a Christian, as they had said this school was full of them, maybe Manson wouldn’t be doing what he is doing today? ….
More than just our actions though is our mindset. Because I also believe we can have good words and actions, but our mindset is a HUGE thing also. Because we can be saying and doing all the “right things” but if we don’t have our mindset on Christ and have a pure mind in what we’re doing then it’s not real also. If we’re doing things just to reflect back on us that’s wrong or if we’re only performing our actions to try to “save” ourselves that’s wrong to, because our works are nothing. It’s a relationship with Christ that God wants. He wants us to confess with our words to Him and then through a pure mindset, in just wanting to follow our Amazing creator, wants our actions too purely and truly reflect how we feel and what we say about Christ.
~Matthew 12:36-37- “36 But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the Day of Judgment for every empty word they have spoken. 37 For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”~
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